County: Tipperary Site name: Site AR15, Moycarky
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002367
Author: David A. McCullough, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd, Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.
Site type: Pits
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 614888m, N 652049m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.619480, -7.780129
An excavation was carried out in June 2006 at a site in Moycarky, near Horse and Jockey, in advance of the proposed 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). The site consisted of potential pit and ditch features. An oval burnt area with possible iron slag identified during the topsoil-stripping was initially thought to be a possible smithing hearth, but hand excavation recovered neither slag nor any further evidence of metalworking activity from the in situ feature. The investigation could not identify any metalworking activity in any of the features. This site is characterised by a series of pits and agricultural furrows. A total of six pits were excavated. These features represented the primary make-up of the site.
