County: Waterford Site name: SHANAKILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0283
Author: Tom Janes, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 633440m, N 615941m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.294115, -7.509781
Excavation was conducted in advance of the East Waterford water pipeline construction from Ballyshonock reservoir to the River Mahon. Testing in 2006 under licence 06E0163 (see No. 2002, Excavations 2006) identified a burnt spread. Excavation revealed a 7m by 18m burnt mound with no associated trough.
Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork
