County: Cavan Site name: KINNEYPOTTLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CV020-085 Licence number: 05E0026
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Ringfort - rath
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 641777m, N 804782m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.990605, -7.362941
The site lies on the north-eastern outskirts of Cavan town, located between the south bank of a ringfort (SMR 20:55(01)) and a public road. The ringfort is surrounded on the other three sides by recent housing developments. The development site is a small piece of wasteland, overgrown with vegetation and used for bonfires. The level of the site is c. 1m higher than the level on the public road, with a vertical drop down to the road. The road has been widened along this stretch.
Cavan Town Council has asked the owners to clean up the site. In order to do this the developers propose to build two single-storey housing units. It will therefore be necessary to reduce the development site level down to road level. This, however, will lie within the 20m exclusion zone outside the ringfort. In order to address the problem of developing this site, it was decided to excavate test-trenches to establish whether archaeological material survives here.
Trenches 1 and 2 exposed evidence for a fosse outside (i.e. south of the bank of the ringfort). The third trench exposed no archaeological material.
There was no evidence for outer banks or ditches or for other features that may once have been associated with the monument.
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