County: Tipperary Site name: Annaholty
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: v
Author: Liam McKinstry, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 25, Liosbaun Industrial Estate, Galway.
Site type: Burnt-stone pits and spreads
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 569096m, N 664583m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.731452, -8.457558
Archaeological investigations in advance of the N7 Nenagh to Limerick high-quality dual carriageway road project took place at Annaholty between 9 and 20 February 2007. Excavations revealed two separate areas of archaeological features c. 30m apart (see also No. 1565, E2326, above).
This concentration of features consisted of two small subcircular pits containing significant amounts of burnt stone and charcoal. Around these two pits were five small burnt-stone spreads. It seems likely that the pits were cooking pits and the spreads the resultant debris. The pits were subsequently cut by a series of modern drainage ditches. There were no finds from the excavation.
