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Published in December 2017 and details the significant results of the excavation of a ‘lost’ Anglo-Norman village in advance of the construction of the M9 Kilcullen to Waterford motorway. It was the sixth book to be published in the TII Heritage series.
The archaeological excavation detailed in the books was undertaken throughout most of 2007, in advance of the construction of the M9. The discovery of the village did not come as a total surprise, as it had been documented in historical sources, but its precise location was not known. Earlier geophysical surveys and test-excavations had identified the potential village location, prior to the main phase of excavation work. This covered 2.3 ha, which is estimated at 10% of the overall area of the village, and represents the largest excavation at a deserted medieval village to date in Ireland. Hence, approximately 90% of the village remains relatively undiscovered under the sod, either side of the motorway.
