County: Kilkenny Site name: Rathduff Lower/Rathduff Upper/Ennisnag/Holdenstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0422
Author: Tim Coughlan, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120b Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 642841m, N 750873m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.506102, -7.354182
Monitoring was carried out as part of the proposed N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Road Scheme – Waterford to Powerstown (land reclamation). This involved the monitoring of topsoil-stripping in four townlands, adjacent to the proposed route. In Rathduff Lower an isolated kiln was revealed and subsequently excavated (see No. 734 below, 08E0478). Monitoring in the remaining areas revealed nothing of archaeological significance, with the exception of the site at Rathduff Upper, where a small fulacht fiadh or burnt mound was partially exposed. This site was cordoned off and preserved in situ.
