County: Kildare Site name: DUNFIERTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0662
Author: D.L. Swan and Catríona Devane, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 677526m, N 738533m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.391265, -6.834462
In compliance with the planning permission conditions, monitoring of groundworks associated with the ESB 110kV Substation commenced on 20 September 2000 and was carried out on an intermittent basis until 9 February 2001.
The stratigraphy was consistent across the site: 0.25m of topsoil overlay 0.75m of dark brown, compact clay subsoil, which in turn overlay at least 2m of firm, mid-brown, gravelly clay. The shallowness of topsoil suggests that this site was never ploughed. Stripping of the site and groundworks trenching revealed no features, structures or deposits of archaeological significance. The bowl of a ‘Parnell Pipe’ was the only artefact recovered.
32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
