County: Laois Site name: PORTLAOISE: Main Street/Railway Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RMP 13:42 Licence number: 01E0104
Author: Paul Stevens, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 646968m, N 698508m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.035181, -7.299709
Monitoring of a proposed natural gas pipeline installation along Main Street and Railway Street, Portlaoise town, was carried out in June 2001. The pipeline crosses into the ‘area of archaeological potential’ for Portlaoise, close to a number of identified sites of archaeological potential, including the town ramparts. Monitoring followed assessment and subsequent monitoring along Fintan Lalor Avenue, carried out in March 2000 (Excavations 2000, No. 561).
Installation of the pipeline involved excavation by JCB of a number of small inspection pits, and trenchless boring machinery was used to install the 4-inch plastic pipe within an existing disused water-main pipeline. Monitoring of this development revealed nothing of archaeological significance.
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