County: Kildare Site name: BALLYVONEEN (Site 6)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0990
Author: Tim Coughlan, IAC Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 670043m, N 716779m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.196837, -6.951730
An excavation was carried out before the proposed M4 Kinnegad–Enfield–Kilcock road development at Ballyvoneen, Co. Kildare, from 3 to 11 October 2002.
Linear testing in all areas of land-take was carried out by Dermot Nelis between 11 February and 10 April 2002 (No. 908, Excavations 2002, 02E0141). Site 6 was identified as a series of timbers, interpreted as a puddle togher or trackway covering an area measuring c. 20m by 20m. It was recommended that the area be fully excavated before construction works.
It became apparent during the stripping of the site that the timbers were natural tree roots. Most extended northward to the adjacent Ballycorron River and had been preserved in fen peat associated with the low-lying river flood-plain. That so many of the timbers were parallel gave the impression that they were part of a structure. Nothing of archaeological significance was identified on the site.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
