2000:0490 - KILKEA–MOONE BGE FEEDER LINE, Kildare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kildare Site name: KILKEA–MOONE BGE FEEDER LINE

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0112

Author: Redmond Tobin, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 677318m, N 690489m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.959598, -6.849204

Licensed monitoring was carried out between Kilkea Castle Demesne and Moone. This feeder line is taking supply from the four-bar Ballyvass to Athy transmission main, supplying Wynne’s of Moone, at Boltonhill Crossroads, Co. Kildare, and Kilkea Castle Demesne, Co. Kildare. The feeder line is a 180mm-diameter pipe that passes through the townlands of Kilkea Demesne, Kilkea Lower, Mullaghreelan, Ballyvass, Belan and Hobartstown West.

The pipeline was being laid in the roadside verge and passed through various areas of archaeological potential relevant to listed monuments. During the course of monitoring no features or artefacts of archaeological significance were encountered.

2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin