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Situated on a slight E-facing slope. A gradiometer survey (06R0083) of a large area (c. 48 ha) in Piercetown and Craddockstown townlands identified areas with potential archaeological features, including two large enclosures in Piercetown and a smaller one in Craddockstown (Harrison 2006). Targeted archaeological testing (06E0635) by T. Bolger (2006) confirmed the presence of the two larger features but the smaller one was shown to be non-archaeological, although three other smaller concentrations of archaeological features were identified (excavations.ie 2006:1621).
Systematic archaeological testing (16E0451) by Deirdre Murphy of the development area within Piercetown explored the larger enclosures (excavations.ie 2016:463). This programme also identified a third enclosure and three other potential, but smaller, archaeological areas. Site 4 is an area (dims c. 25m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) with evidence of two ditches (Wth of top 0.48m; 0.5m), a pit (dims 1.8m x 1.6m), an oval spread (dims 0.45m x 0.4m) of oxidised clay and two possible boundary ditches. These features will be preserved as a green area. (Murphy 2016, 15)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 November 2021
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