County: Carlow Site name: CARLOW: Mill Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0058
Author: Martin Reid
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 671435m, N 677138m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.840448, -6.939679
The development site at Mill Brook, Mill Lane, Carlow, was tested on 7 February 1998. It lies in the low-lying flood-plain immediately west of Carlow Castle and beside the River Barrow. Two test-trenches were excavated by mechanical digger.
Warehouse buildings had recently been demolished and removed from the site, and discarded stoneware bottles stamped 'Corcoran & Co. Carlow, Estd. 1827' were noted in profusion. Deposits consisted of river silts and gravels with no early structural remains. One surprising find was an intact human tibia, and this led to a recommendation that further groundworks be archaeologically monitored.
37 Errigal Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12
