County: Carlow Site name: Powerstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: E002601
Author: Liam Hackett, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Prehistoric/post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 670431m, N 668953m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.767025, -6.956339
The site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. A small site was excavated in the cleft of a naturally formed gravel valley. A number of post-medieval subsoil-cut features were examined containing glazed pottery, glass and iron artefacts, dating to the late 19th/early 20th centuries. The soil that had formed in the valley from natural deposition contained prehistoric artefacts, including pottery and worked flint; however, no contextualised prehistoric activity could be discerned. It is thought that a possibly substantial prehistoric settlement may be in the vicinity of the site, with an enclosure site (CW012–094) and a fulacht fiadh site (CW012–089) in the immediate locality.
