What is recorded here

Clear water flows through the chamber, revealing the stone foundation trenches and post-holes that anchored a rectangular house nearly four thousand years ago. The structure contained carinated bowls and deliberately placed lithics, marking it as a lived and ritual space rather than a forgotten outline. Its walls stood parallel to another dwelling, separated by a narrow gap and bounded by a deep ditch, suggesting a small settled community rather than a solitary shelter. The road works exposed the chamber, but the stones still record the shape of the rooms and the presence of the people who built them.

Excavated in 2006 in advance of the N9/N10 Waterford to Kilcullen Road Scheme (Excavation licence no. E3005). One of two parallel rectangular houses (see KK036-068----), both orientated NW-SE and c. 4m apart. The houses were cut by a large boundary ditch (KK036-070----). The house to the SE (c. 11.5m x 7.8m) was constructed using deep stone-filled foundation trenches and post-holes. A possible entrance feature was at the E end of the NE wall. An internal foundation trench divided the house into two rooms and there were also internal post-holes either for supporting the roof or for creating a further division. All of the evidence recovered from the structure including ritually deposited lithics and domestic items such as sherds of carinated bowls confirm that it was of Early Neolithic date. The earliest radiocarbon date for this house was 3788-3659 cal BC (UBA-14155). (McKinstry 2009, 260, no. 1019; 2010) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 8 October 2013

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