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Archaeological investigations in advance of the N8 Cashel–Mitchelstown Road Improvement Scheme identified 57 previously unrecorded sites that ranged in date from the Early Neolithic period (4000–3600 BC) to the post-medieval period (AD 1550–present). The majority of sites (40) produced evidence for Bronze Age activity and this paper focuses on the structural remains from that period. The road scheme, which opened in July 2008, comprises 41 km of improved dual carriageway from Cashel, Co. Tipperary, to Carrigane, Co. Cork. A link road to the N24 was also constructed to the north-east of Cahir, stretching for 3.8 km between the townlands of Kedrah and Knockmorris (Illus. 1).The road scheme extends south-westwards from Cashel through rolling agricultural lowlands overlooked by the Galty and Knockmealdown mountain ranges further south. Having crossed the River Suir just north of Cahir, the route travels along poorly drained land below the southern break in slope of the Galty Mountains. Here a series of small watercourses run down from the mountains, the largest of which is the River Funshion.The N24 link road runs eastwards from the N8 through an area of elevated farmland, to the north-east of the River Suir.