County: Offaly Site name: TULLAMORE/BALLYCOWAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0152
Author: Rob Lynch, IAC Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 629384m, N 725038m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.274863, -7.559438
An assessment was undertaken to define the potential adverse affects on the archaeological resource as a result of the Tullamore Water Supply Improvements, Contract No. 5. This involved the monitoring of excavations carried out during the site investigation contract. Twenty-five trial-pits and sixteen slit-trenches were monitored between 4 and 28 March 1999, both within the town centre and in outlying areas.
The walkover survey revealed that much of the proposed development runs along pre-existing road surfaces and through Tullamore town centre. The northern end of the pipeline runs through a forested area, while the southern end of the scheme, in the area of the Clonminch water tower, runs through green-field and wetland areas.
Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed during the site investigation programme.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
