2007:943 - JORDANSTOWN (AR119), Kilkenny

This site was located within the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme along Contract 2, Phase 4B, Knocktopher to Powerstown, in pastureland on a gentle slope with a north-easterly aspect. The archaeology present on site consisted of several different elements; along the eastern side of the site was an 8m long linear arrangement of four large pits (e.g. 2m by 1.9m by 1.1m) on a north-east/south-west orientation with two outlying smaller pit/post-holes. This line was 25m east of the main archaeological activity, which comprised a similarly aligned 11m-long group of four pits which was present on the western side of the site with similar dimensions (1.8m by 1.75m by 0.95m), with an additional outlying pit off the alignment 4m to the south-west. Eight metres north of the last pit in the western line was the start of the major structural element to the site: an arc of nineteen stake-/post-holes. From this point these arc firstly northwards and then eastwards in a gentle broad sweep c. 20m in length with an average of 0.75m between posts, which are 0.15–0.2m in diameter and up to 0.35m in depth. The uniformity of this arc is interrupted at its eastern end where an additional four post-holes are present; these may have combined to form an entrance-type feature accessing the interior of the enclosed area. No evidence of a continuation of the arc to form a complete circle or enclosure was present; however, an additional loosely L-shaped cluster of six pits was present on the interior of the arc. This assemblage had three pits on a north-east/south-west orientation, with the remaining pits being perpendicular and to the north-west of these.

120B Greenpark Road, Bray, Wicklow