2024:832 - Ballynahown, Laois
County: Laois
Site name: Ballynahown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LA002-013004
Licence number: 24E0638
Author: Martin E. Byrne
Author/Organisation Address: Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Site type: Environs of ecclesiastical enclosure; no archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 624891m, N 710342m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.143014, -7.627954
A programme of Archaeological Monitoring of the foundation pits/trenches associated with the installation of two new electricity supply poles and pairs of associated stay-blocks and rods was undertaken at Ballynahown, Co. Laois. The poles and stays were located within the RMP Zone established with respect to a multi-element monument (SMR No: LA002-013), comprising a church (LA002-013001), graveyard (LA002-013002), ecclesiastical enclosure (LA002-013004) and cross-slabs (LA002-013003; LA002-013005; LA002-013006 & LA002-013007
Notification of the works was submitted to the National Monuments Service, as required under Section 12(3) of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, who recommended that all ground disturbance associated with the works be monitored by an archaeologist and under licence from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
No subsurface features of archaeological interest or potential were uncovered by the excavations; likewise, no artefacts of archaeological or historical interest were recovered.