County: Laois Site name: BLACKHILLS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LA023-028 Licence number: 11E0009
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 642786m, N 685862m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.921881, -7.363731
An assessment took place of a proposed single-house development within 60m of a probable ringfort. This was recorded by Sweetman in the Archaeological Inventory of County Laois as ‘a circular enclosure visible on aerial photograph (BKS, 601465). A slight rise in the ground surface indicates the site. No other visible surface traces.’ The monument measured 47m in diameter and was defined by a c. 5m-wide fosse that runs outside a 5–7m-wide earthwork bank. A possible entrance gap was visible in the south. Test excavations failed to uncover anything of archaeological interest, as did follow-up monitoring.
Kilkenny Archaeology, Threecastles, Co. Kilkenny
