County: Kilkenny Site name: SHANKILL (AR158)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK026–006 Licence number: A032/127; E3766
Author: Przemyslaw Wierzbicki, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: Linear earthwork
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 665643m, N 660311m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.689965, -7.029004
This site was located within the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme along Contract 2, Phase 4B, Knocktopher to Powerstown on generally flat land under pasture with a gentle eastern aspect and represents the line of a linear earthwork, KK026–006. The linear earthwork consisted of a U-shaped ditch and a bank, surviving up to c. 1m, which were visible before commencement of archaeological works. The remains were incorporated into an existing field boundary/ditch system. An area c.10m long was opened up on both sides of the monument but revealed nothing except ploughmarks and gullies running towards the ditch.
120B Greenpark Road, Bray, Wicklow
