2007:756 - BALLYVASS, Kildare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kildare Site name: BALLYVASS

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002945

Author: Red Tobin, Headland Archaeology Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 677067m, N 688775m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.944235, -6.853346

This site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme, Phase 3: Kilcullen to Carlow. Centreline trenching (CRDS 2006) identified a series of possible features, which, by their morphology, were given a suggested interpretation as being the truncated remains of a figure-of-eight cereal-drying kiln.

The area of excavation was extended beyond the immediate features and further possible features were identified. During the course of excavation all features proved to be non-archaeological. It is likely that the features, which contained charcoal-rich material, were the remains of either tree cover or scrub vegetation of uncertain date.

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