County: Kildare Site name: PUNCHESTOWN LITTLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0502
Author: Noel Dunne, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 691643m, N 715973m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.186314, -6.628796
A programme of archaeological testing was undertaken at Punchestown Racecourse on 29–30 October and 2–3 December 1998, before the development of a new stabling block. The racecourse lies in an archaeologically sensitive landscape containing standing stones, cists and a ring-barrow. The work was carried out in compliance with a condition of planning permission issued by Kildare County Council.
Four trenches with a total length of 190m were excavated mechanically. Three of these lay within the area of an existing carpark and showed that the soil stratigraphy here had been reduced to natural before the spreading of the hard-core parking surface. The fourth trench was excavated immediately to the north-west of the carpark and contained deep brown earths resting on natural sand deposits. No archaeological evidence was noted in any of the trenches.
32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
