2007:807 - GALLOWS HILL, Kildare
County: Kildare
Site name: GALLOWS HILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: E002993
Author: Lydia Cagney, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 670475m, N 694570m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.997213, -6.950139
This site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme, Phase 3: Kilcullen to Carlow. An isolated pit was identified during testing by CRDS Ltd. Excavation in September 2007 revealed additional features, including a trough, several pits and a number of cultivation furrows within a cutting measuring 120m2. The site has been provisionally interpreted as the ploughed-out remains of a fulacht fiadh pending post-excavation analysis, which is currently under way. Radiocarbon dating and examination of the environmental remains should provide further information regarding the date and function of the site.