County: Kilkenny Site name: COOLEESHALMORE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1206
Author: Patrick J.H. Neary
Site type: Kiln - lime and Burial
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 644440m, N 663341m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.719355, -7.342192
During monitoring of the R693 realignment at Threecastles (Excavations 2001, No. 684) a piece of human jawbone with seven teeth attached was found in an area where there was fire-reddened earth and quicklime and some large boulders present.
Excavation resulted in the discovery of an underground limekiln, dug into the top of a slope, in which coal was used as the fuel.
Nearby, and apparently unrelated, was a burial site where four individuals were found within the road-take area. The burials were very shallow and the bodies were aligned roughly east–west. The skeletal remains were in a very poor condition and probably date from the first millennium AD.
24 Talbots Inch Village, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
