County: Kildare Site name: BALLYBURN LOWER (Site 1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A021/006
Author: Brendon Wilkins, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 677343m, N 682137m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.884552, -6.850807
This site was identified during archaeological testing of Area 1 of Archaeological Services Contract 3, N9/N10 Kilcullen–Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown (A021/001). Area 1 ran from Prumplestown Lower to Russellstown townlands. Test-trenches totalling c. 19,000 linear metres were excavated within Area 1 and nine areas of archaeological significance were identified (Sites 1–10; A021/006–015, Excavations 2005, Nos 729–31, 733, 738–41 and 785–6).
Two spreads of burnt-mound material were identified in the south-west corner of Field 5, truncated by a number of field drains. One spread was 15m in length by 13m and was identified in Trenches 9, 12 and 11. The other spread was located 10m to the east and recorded in Trenches 7 and 12. A 4m by 4m area was visible, but the exact dimensions could not be ascertained as the burnt-mound material continued beyond the limit of the CPO. A small test-pit excavated to ascertain the depth of the upcast material identified the presence of a potential wood-lined trough at a depth of 0.7m below the burnt-mound material.
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