County: Kildare Site name: Woodlands East
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002956
Author: Liam Hackett, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 676394m, N 685114m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.911432, -6.864217
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 E2955, No. 865 above) that were identified in testing in a patch of bog at the southern end of Woodlands East townland. Excavation revealed the presence of two burnt mounds and associated features including a trough and pits.
The larger burnt mound was partly located beyond the east edge of the road corridor. Within the site it was oval in plan, measuring 11.75m by 18.3m and 0.9m deep. It overlay a small pit. The second burnt mound, located in the south-west corner of the site, was sub-oval in plan and measured 11.26m by 7.24m and 0.5m deep. Excavation revealed a rectangular trough and three pits underlying the mound. The trough measured 1.8m by 1.14m and 0.22m deep with three stake-holes at its base, suggestive of some kind of lining.
