County: Kildare Site name: PUNCHESTOWN LITTLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0031
Author: Christiaan Corlett
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 691171m, N 715677m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.183736, -6.635939
It was a condition of planning permission that monitoring be carried out during alterations at the north end of Punchestown Racecourse stadium complex, in that area of the development in closest proximity to a ring-barrow (SMR 24:10). The groundworks were associated with a new entrance structure and the realignment of a pre-existing road. Groundworks extended as far north as 35m south of the ring-barrow.
Once the tarmac and an underlying foundation layer of gravel were removed a mixed glacial till was exposed, consisting of orange-brown, silty clay and grey-brown sand. There was no evidence of an earlier sod layer that may have been removed during the construction of the tarmac surface. There were no archaeological features cut into this boulder clay.
88 Heathervue, Greystones, Co. Wicklow
