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On high ground in a commanding position. Bisected by a ditched enclosure (KK024-117001-). Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3681). A ring-ditch (diam 11.9m; max. D 0.3m; av. Wth 1m). The uppermost fill was redeposited from elsewhere and contained four antler picks and two pieces of flint debitage as well as a significant quantity of animal bone, seeds and hazelnut, charcoal, shell and burnt bone. The entire circumference was recut and contained three fills. A piece of flint debitage and a piece of copper alloy were found in the primary fill of the recut. 5 inhumation burials (KK024-117006-) were excavated in the S half of this ring-ditch. Two other ring-ditches (KK024-117003- and KK024-117005-) were excavated within the same enclosure and another ring-ditch (KK024-117002-) lies outside the excavated area and the roadway to the NW. (Whitty 2009, Ring-ditch 2; 2010, 248, no. 938)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 10 December 2013
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