County: Kilkenny Site name: AR150, Lyrath
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A032/162; E3841
Author: Emma Devine, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120B Greenpark Road, Bray, Wicklow.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 654858m, N 655470m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.647659, -7.189317
This site was located within the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme along Contract 2, Phase 4B, Knocktopher to Powerstown, in a heavily ploughed flat field. An area 15m by 15m was stripped of topsoil and an isolated pit (0.4m by 0.25m by 0.12m) with a naturally silted deposit and a patch of fire-reddened subsoil of apparent geological origin, 4.2m north-west of the pit, were located.
