County: Kilkenny Site name: KILLASPY (Site B)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 43:66 Licence number: 02E0196
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Burnt mound and Designed landscape - formal garden
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 661376m, N 615305m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.285989, -7.100408
Testing of 500m of the proposed route of the N25 Waterford Bypass in south County Kilkenny produced indications of a relatively short period of cultivation, with little earlier human activity. A possible burnt-mound site (perhaps from the second millennium BC) was found on the hillside sloping down toward Site 4, and a further two eluded the test-trenches but appeared after ploughing on the hillside sloping down toward Site 3. Fire-spots and small patches of charcoal, without any sign of associated buildings, occurred sporadically and may represent forest activity and forest clearance. Cultivation furrows and open land drains are probably no earlier than the late 17th century and may be associated with the nearby (now demolished) Killaspy House. Likely garden remains and tree planting holes are probably also associated with the house.
Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
