County: Carlow Site name: POWERSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A021/043
Author: Joanne Hughes, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 4b, Europa Enterprise Park, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Site type: Pits and post-holes
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 670603m, N 668781m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.765458, -6.953828
A concentration of pits and post-holes (one of which contained Bronze Age pottery) measuring on average 0.3m long and 0.3m wide were found here on the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme. These features lay c. 1.3m below modern ground level and within a 5m2 area. They originally lay in a natural hollow, and later ground-levelling attempts accounted for the topsoil accumulation. Post-medieval drainage features were also found in this area.
