2006:1896 - MOYCARKY (Site AR11), Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary Site name: MOYCARKY (Site AR11)

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002364

Author: Grace Fegan, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.

Site type: Cremation pit

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 614461m, N 651303m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.612788, -7.786467

Additional investigation of Site AR11 was carried out as part of the M8/N8 Cullahill to Cashel road improvement scheme. Prior assessment and centreline test-trenching was carried out in 2005 (Excavations 2005, No. 1388, A027/009). An additional 400m2 area was stripped of topsoil around a cremation pit resolved during testing. No further archaeological features or deposits were revealed.

Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny