County: Kilkenny Site name: AR115, Ballinvalley
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A032/146; E3836
Author: Emma Devine, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120B Greenpark Road, Bray, Wicklow
Site type: Burnt-mound activity
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 663194m, N 657564m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.665566, -7.065743
This site was located within the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme along Contract 2, Phase 4B, Knocktopher to Powerstown, at the edge of a waterlogged field in heavily cultivated agricultural land. An area 20m by 20m was stripped of topsoil along with a south-west extension of 5m by 5m. A pit (0.8m by 0.75m by 0.22m depth) filled with heat-fractured stone and charcoal was identified at the northern edge of the site that may have been associated with nearby burnt-mound activity. A hearth and three stake-holes were located on the south-western edge of the site, 28m from the pit; the stake-holes may be the remains of a windbreak or shelter associated with the hearth.
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