County: Kilkenny Site name: Raheenapisha 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK023-005 Licence number: 15E0567
Author: Graham Hull, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd
Site type: Early medieval cereal-drying kiln and ditch
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 648345m, N 651820m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.615470, -7.286100
This site was revealed during test trenching on the route of the N76 Callan Road Realignment, Co. Kilkenny (15E0464) and was subsequently excavated. The excavation revealed an early medieval cereal drying kiln, an early medieval field boundary ditch, a pit that pre-dated the ditch, a pit possibly associated with the kiln and a post-medieval ditch.. Charred plant remains retrieved from soil samples taken from the kiln, pits and ditches were analysed. Oat-rich cereals had been dried in the kiln before it was cleaned and then abandoned. Three radiocarbon determinations were obtained indicating that the ditch was dug in the 11th century AD or earlier and the kiln was in use in the 11th or 12th centuries AD. The features are likely to be associated with a nearby enclosure (KK023-005), around which a large complex of ditched features has been revealed in geophysical survey.
AHISH, BALLINRUAN, CRUSHEEN, CO. CLARE
