What is recorded here
Off the brow of a hill, on a NE-facing slope that overlooked a small stream to the E. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3614). A possible structure (c. 3m x 4m) comprising a linear slot-trench (3.75m x 0.25m x 0.1m) containing sherds of early…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK027-083
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.echolive.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, www.interment.net
- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, ie.pinterest.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Eirian Evans, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, focusedcollection.com
- Dave Henderson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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