County: Carlow Site name: BUSHERSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002584
Author: Áine Richardson, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound and Platform
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 677478m, N 674663m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.817368, -6.850578
The site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. Testing carried out under Ministerial Direction A021/026 on this site in 2005 (Excavations 2005, No. 76) identified two separate features, a fulacht fiadh trough and a possible Bronze Age burial, located c. 30m apart.
Full resolution was conducted on this site, with machine-stripping beginning on 21 February and full excavation finishing on 10 March 2006. A prehistoric (Bronze Age) burnt mound with very large pit/trough and timber platform, and associated smaller pits mainly filled with burnt-mound material, numerous pits and potboilers were excavated. Due to intensive agricultural activity, the area had been badly truncated, leading to intrusion of the archaeological remains.
Immediately north of the site, another excavation of a burnt mound and other possible Bronze Age activity was carried out (see No. 168, Excavations 2006, E2583). Approximately 750m north of the site are CW008–017 and CW007–032, a graveyard and bullaun stone.
Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork
