County: Kildare Site name: CLONCURRY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 4:37 Licence number: 02E0140
Author: Fintan Walsh, IAC Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 680310m, N 741259m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.415345, -6.791917
Testing was undertaken at Site 69 of the M4 Kinnegad–Enfield–Kilcock Motorway Scheme. Site 69 was recorded in the environmental impact statement as a possible enclosure with a low, curving bank in the north-western quadrant of a field. A geophysical survey was carried out on-site (in April 2002) after the testing was complete. This identified a number of positive pit-type anomalies and weak linear anomalies that were interpreted as natural soil variations or modern activity.
Nine trenches were opened across the site; they failed to produce any material of archaeological significance. The programme proved that the bank to the west and south of the site was a naturally occurring feature. In all trenches the topsoil and ploughsoil sealed the natural subsoil, which varied across the site from bright yellow/orange to grey clay with high concentrations of decayed stone.
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