What is recorded here

Kilree holds a truncated east-west grave beside a medieval square enclosure, waiting for the road to reveal whether modern debris marked a recent loss or merely contaminated an older hole. The field boundaries cut through the burial, suggesting people walked across that exact spot for generations before engineers opened it.

Excavated in 2007/8 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme (Licence no. E3730). Situated just outside the SSE corner of a large medieval square enclosure (KK024-127----) that superimposed a double ring-ditch (KK024-126----). The burial was orientated E-W and had been truncated by field boundaries. Two pieces of modern pottery and a piece of modern iron were found in the fill of the grave suggesting a late date for the burial. (Whitty and Lynch 2009; Lynch 2010, 235, no. 885) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 November 2013

A Neolithic burial, likely associated with a passage tomb tradition; its location beneath a medieval enclosure suggests long-term ritual use of the site.

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