County: Kildare Site name: Yellowbogcommon
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002888
Author: Lydia Cagney, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park. Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 683738m, N 707296m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.109652, -6.749300
This site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme, Phase 3: Kilcullen to Carlow. A spread of burnt-mound material was identified during testing by CRDS Ltd. Excavation of the site was undertaken in October 2007. An area measuring 225m2 was stripped of topsoil.
The site comprised a large spread of burnt-mound material which overlay very few cut features. Those that were present consisted of a number of small pits and a depression in the subsoil which may represent a truncated trough. A shallow, curvilinear east–west-aligned ditch was present along the southern side of the site. A heavily disturbed area to the south and east of the site was the location of a mains water pipe, which was laid in recent years. It is quite likely that some of the site was disturbed during this work and this may account for the absence of cut features on the site.
Post-excavation analysis is ongoing and should provide suitable material for radiocarbon dating and archaeobotanical analysis.
