County: Kildare Site name: Woodlands East
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002955
Author: Liam Hackett, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 676354m, N 685190m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.912121, -6.864793
This site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme, Phase 3: Kilcullen to Carlow. The site is one of two fulachta fiadh (including E2956; see No. 866 below) that were identified in testing in a patch of bog at the southern end of Woodlands East townland. Excavation revealed the presence of a burnt mound, a trough with associated pits and possible stake-holes.
The burnt mound was subcircular in plan and measured 11.3m by 8.9m by 0.38m deep. It overlay the trough, which was sub-oval in plan measuring 1.72m by 0.76m and 0.16m deep. Two horizontal timber planks lying on its base suggested it might have originally been wood lined. Two adjacent pits and four possible stake-holes were identified and their respective fills suggested they were related to the burnt-mound activity occurring on site. The burnt mound yielded a flint artefact, and a whetstone surface find was recovered east of the mound.
