County: Kilkenny Site name: AR053/54, Baysrath
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A032/28.53/4, E2517
Author: John Channing, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 651535m, N 637676m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.488063, -7.241190
Archaeological excavations were conducted in advance of the N9/N10 Waterford to Powerstown realignment from October 2006. Excavation has extended into 2007. Features include an Early Christian enclosure with associated boundary system overlying an earlier palisaded enclosure containing circular structures. Other earlier features include cremation pits, circular huts and a concentration of pits containing Neolithic grooved ware.
Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
