County: Kildare Site name: HALLAHOISE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002943
Author: Tara Doyle, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound and Well
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 676164m, N 686410m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.923117, -6.867330
This site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme, Phase 3: Kilcullen to Carlow. The site was one of four fulachta fiadh identified within a 250m length of linear testing by CRDS Ltd.
An area measuring 4720m2 was stripped of topsoil. Excavation revealed one 14m by 10m burnt mound at the north-western end of the site. A trough, two pits and a metalled surface were located under the burnt-mound material. The trough was subrectangular in shape, measured 2m long by 1.1m wide and was 0.5m deep. Two wooden planks were placed in sand at the base of the trough.
A cluster of archaeological features was identified and excavated in the south-eastern corner of the site. Here, a trough, a pit and a well were found. The trough was rectangular in shape, orientated south-east to north-west and measured 1.32m in length, 1.2m in width and 0.15m deep. It had five stake-holes cut into its base; two were at the south-west corner and one each at the north-west, north-east and south-east corners. The pit was located 2m to the south-east of the trough and was sub-oval in plan. It measured 1.96m in length, 1.5m in width and 0.32m in depth. A direct stratigraphic relationship between the pit and the trough could not be established. However, as the basal fills of both features were composed of heat-affected stone in a matrix of charcoal-rich black sandy silt, they are, most likely, contemporary. The well was located 3m to the west of the trough and measured 2.88m east–west by 2.2m and 1.3m in depth.
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