County: Kilkenny Site name: AR088, Danesfort
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A032/064; E3640
Author: Richard Jennings, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120B Greenpark Road, Bray, Wicklow.
Site type: Burnt-mound activity
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 653181m, N 648517m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.585334, -7.215210
This site was located within the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme along Contract 2, Phase 4, Knocktopher to Powerstown. A series of pits almost certainly associated with a fulacht fiadh were found in a low-lying field. The most significant feature was a 1.8m long by 1.2m wide by 0.38m deep pit that was full of burnt-mound material. Excavation of the fill revealed six stake-holes, each ,0.05m in diameter and depth, which were probably impressed into the pit and used to support some type of structure or object. Four smaller pits with burnt-mound material were found 40m to the east of this pit in the direction of a pond recorded at neighbouring site AR087 (see No. 906 above). A probable post-medieval field boundary ditch (also recorded at AR087) truncates two of the smaller pits.
