County: Offaly Site name: KINNITTY CASTLE, Ballybrit
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0105
Author: Jim Higgins
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 618974m, N 705528m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.100002, -7.716669
The first cutting was in the area of the proposed sewage treatment facility near the house. The excavation revealed no archaeological deposits, finds or features.
The second cutting was made in the vicinity of the ‘shore’ or low area between outer ground level and the exterior wall of the basement, where it is proposed to introduce a new doorway in what is now a window in the 19th-century fabric of the castle. Grass and scraw (with tarmacadam just at the edge at the same level) covered a thin layer of dark humic soil. Under this was rubble, redeposited rubble, mortar and tarmacadam which covered builders’ rubble from the 19th-century construction phase of the castle. It included some 19th-century cut-stone fragments, spalls and some mortar. Below this was natural boulder clay with some small stones.
‘St Gerards’, 18 College Road, Galway
