County: Kildare Site name: BALLYVASS TO ATHY GAS PIPELINE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0434
Author: Niall Gregory
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 677009m, N 687991m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.937196, -6.854396
Monitoring work between 1 August and 30 October 1999, in conjunction with a Bord Gáis pipeline corridor, revealed sites of archaeological relevance. These were subsequently excavated under their own licence numbers. The development was a 20m-wide corridor that extended from Ballyvass townland in a west-north-westerly direction to the outskirts of Athy. It traversed green fields as well as tilled land. The topsoil was stripped to a depth of 0.25–0.3m. The southern portion of the corridor served as an access route for plant machinery, while the northern portion was trench-dug to a depth of 1.8m and width of 0.4m, to accommodate the pipeline.
The sites revealed were 99E0453, Ballyvass, an Early Bronze Age fulacht fiadh (Excavations 1999, 121); 99E0587, Kilkea Lower, a possible medieval wetland track (see Excavations 2000, No. 489); 99E0474, Leinster Lodge, late to post-medieval demolition debris (Excavations 1999, 131); and 99E0473, Grangerosnolvan, a possible hearth of undetermined date (Excavations 1999, 127).
Editor’s note: The summary of this excavation, which was carried out during 1999, arrived too late for publication in the bulletin of that year.
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