Burnt spread in Sheepstown, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

In boggy grassland under pasture. A burnt spread excavated in 2006 in advance of the N9/N10 Waterford to Powerstown realignment. Excavation licence number: E3017. The remains comprised a deposit (max. L 3.75m; max. Wth 2.8m) of black friable silt, charcoal and heat-cracked stones located close to and truncated by a modern ditch. (Channing 2008; Channing 2009, 252, no. 990) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 27 August 2013

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK031-074

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