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2021:046 - SUTTONSRATH, Jenkinstown, Kilkenny

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kilkenny

Site name: SUTTONSRATH, Jenkinstown

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 21E0010

Author: Edel Barry & Seán Shanahan, Shanarc Archaeology Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 39A, Hebron Business Park, Hebron Road, Kilkenny

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 647062m, N 663806m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.723304, -7.303333

Archaeological monitoring of groundworks, associated with an extension to dairy buildings, was carried out in a farmyard at Suttonsrath, Jenkinstown, Co. Kilkenny on 15 March 2021.

The development site is located in the immediate vicinity (500m radius) of 16 recorded archaeological monuments, including a cluster of 6 ring-ditches directly east of the development site, and a further cluster of 8 to the south-east.

No features, finds or deposits associated with the aforementioned recorded monuments, or with hitherto unknown archaeological activity, were revealed in the course of monitoring.


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