County: Carlow Site name: JOHNSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002576
Author: Linda Hegarty, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 677743m, N 676818m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.836700, -6.846135
The site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. The site was located in the vicinity of a zone of archaeological potential identified as a castle site (CW007–029(01)). A graveyard and bullaun stone (CW007–017(01, 02)) were identified two fields south-west and Ardnehue church site (CW008–001) was situated directly east. A second fulacht fiadh site (see No. 184, Excavations 2006, E2575), consisting of two burnt mounds and associated features, was located 30m north along the route of the road corridor.
The burnt mound partially lay beyond the extent of the road corridor. Within the site it measured 11m by 9m and was 0.2m deep. Excavation revealed one unlined trough and five pits underlying the burnt mound.
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