County: Carlow Site name: Tinryland
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: E002599
Author: Linda Hegarty, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Fulachta fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 675013m, N 672048m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.794224, -6.887746
The site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. Excavations revealed a spread of burnt-mound material, two troughs with evidence of timber lining, ten pits and a set of intercut pits that contained the remains of a possible timber platform at their base.
The spread partly lay outside the south-east edge of the road corridor. It measured 30m by 22.5m and 0.35m deep as excavated. Underlying the spread were two troughs with evidence for timber lining. The first, oval in plan, was 2m by 1.2m and 0.4m deep. The second was sub-oval in plan, measuring 2.26m by 1.3m and 0.2m deep. A series of ten pits were recorded underlying the spread. Towards the north end of the site, a pair of truncating pits were recorded. Both were subrectangular in plan and measured 3.75m by 2.25m and 1.75m deep and 3m by 1.6m and 0.22m deep respectively. Surviving at their base were eight timber elements, possibly representing five horizontally laid planks. Some of the elements were worked. The arrangement possibly represents the remains of a type of platform or footing associated with activity within the feature.
