County: Tipperary Site name: MONADREELA (Site 7)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0300
Author: Neil O'Flanagan
Site type: Ring-ditch and Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 609601m, N 641953m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.528857, -7.858499
This site on the N8 Cashel Bypass and N74 Link Road scheme had been tested in 2002 by Anne Marie Lennon (Excavations 2002, No. 1744, 02E0374). Phase 2 resolution between Chainages 6750 and 6810 identified prehistoric features in the form of a ring-ditch (7.5m in diameter), burnt-mound spreads, pits containing burnt-mound-type material and other pits containing possible prehistoric pottery. Evidence for post-medieval activity included drainage ditches, numerous cultivation furrows and a modern stone causeway. A number of anomalous pits were also excavated, one of which may represent the remains of a corn-drying kiln. Some of these features may be associated with the nearby Monadreela medieval activity on Sites 8 and 9 (see Nos 1782–3, Excavations 2003).
3 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7
