2011:356 - CORBALLY, Kildare
County: Kildare
Site name: CORBALLY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 11E0236
Author: Graham Hull, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd.
Site type: Pit and Cremation pit
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 684633m, N 712531m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.156547, -6.734572
Monitoring and excavation at Brownstown Quarry, Corbally, uncovered six pits and a post-hole in two groups not far from known prehistoric remains. One of the pits is a possible cremation burial with pottery sherds. This feature was radiocarbon-dated to the Late Bronze Age and there is a nearby post-hole. The southern set of features is in an L-shape and three of the pits contained diagnostic Middle Neolithic lithics. A radiocarbon date from one of the features was centred towards the later Neolithic.