County: Kilkenny Site name: Parkmore 1, Co. Kilkenny
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 15E0568
Author: Graham Hull, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd
Site type: Late Bronze Age pits
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 648045m, N 651425m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.611946, -7.290587
This site was revealed during test trenching on the route of the N76 Callan Road Realignment, Co. Kilkenny (15E0464) and the site was subsequently excavated. The excavation revealed three pits. Charred barley from one of the pits returned a radiocarbon date in the 10th – 9th centuries BC, placing the activity in the Late Bronze Age. Charred plant remains retrieved from soil samples taken from the pits gave evidence of cooking or food preparation in a local landscape of mixed semi-natural woodland. A possible rubbing or grinding stone was recovered from one of the pits.
AHISH, BALLINRUAN, CRUSHEEN, CO. CLARE
