County: Kildare Site name: KILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0114 ext.
Author: Breandán Ó Ríordáin, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 694063m, N 722964m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.248706, -6.590531
On behalf of Bord Gáis Éireann, and within the zone of archaeological potential recognised in the Urban Archaeology Survey for Kill, monitoring was carried out from 18 to 22 September 2000 on the extension of the gas pipeline laid in Main Street in 1998 (Excavations 1998, 107). This was undertaken from a point opposite the former parochial house (recently demolished) of the Catholic church, southwards to the River Lawn Estate. A compressor and mole were used to route the gas pipeline through the estate over a distance of 250m. To accommodate the mole, seventeen slit-trenches were opened in the street and grass verge, varying from 2.3m to 1.7m long, 0.4m to 0.7m wide and 1m deep; they revealed that the 0.09m layer of tarmac had been laid over a 0.3m-thick stratum of hardcore that overlay boulder clay and an admixture of natural stones. No archaeological features or artefacts came to light.
Burgage More, Blessington, Co. Wicklow
