County: Kildare Site name: BURTONHALL DEMESNE (Site 4)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A021/009
Author: Brendon Wilkins, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 677341m, N 680115m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.866378, -6.851317
This site was identified during 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).
A single burnt-mound spread was located within Trenches 6–8. It extended outside the CPO to the south-west but had visible dimensions of 18m by 10m. Other associated features were identified in adjacent trenches, including a single pit. This was 0.23m in diameter and 0.16m in depth and circular in plan, with sharp breaks of slope and smooth sides. It was adjacent to a linear feature and was 0.15m wide and 0.08m deep.
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