County: Kilkenny Site name: DANGANBEG (AR062)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A032/097; E3677
Author: Ed Lyne, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 651362m, N 639465m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.504155, -7.243460
This site was located within the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme along Contract 2, Phase 4, Knocktopher to Powerstown. An area c. 35m by 35m was stripped to reveal several pits, possible post- and stake-holes in an area of low-lying pasture with a gentle hillside rising up to the east and west. The largest of the pits on site (3.5m by 3.5m by 0.9m) contained a silty fill with charcoal inclusions. A possible trough (1.5m by 1.3m by 0.52m) was also identified and filled with heat-shattered stone and charcoal-rich soil. This may suggest that although no burnt mound or spread was found on site, hot-stone technology was used here. The other pits on site were generally filled with charcoal-rich silty clay, as were the possible post- and stake-holes. The possible post- and stake-holes did not form any pattern, and it is not thought that they represent any kind of formal arrangement. No finds were recovered from any of the features on site.
120B Greenpark Road, Bray, Wicklow
