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Kildare<br />

close to Structure 1. It contained roughly equal amounts <strong>of</strong> wheat, barley and oats, in<br />

addition to a possible grain <strong>of</strong> rye. <strong>The</strong> best-represented cereal from the settlement was<br />

barley.<br />

Killickaweeny was a large enclosed early medieval farmstead that revealed defined areas<br />

within the settlement related to domestic and craft activities, metalworking and animal<br />

management. <strong>The</strong> family that resided here, over a couple <strong>of</strong> generations, lived a relatively<br />

comfortable lifestyle although the lack <strong>of</strong> exotic items or evidence for non-ferrous metallurgy<br />

suggests they did not belong to the noble social grades. Killickaweeny is an informative<br />

example <strong>of</strong> what may have been a typical early medieval enclosed farmstead including a<br />

dwelling surrounded by farm buildings. Animals were kept in the northern part <strong>of</strong> the<br />

enclosure and the family and their retainers were engaged in a range <strong>of</strong> subsistence<br />

agricultural and industrial activities probably divided according to gender and status within<br />

the kin group.<br />

Fig. 187: Plan <strong>of</strong> Killickaweeny, Co. Kildare (after Walsh 2008, 28).<br />

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