2002:0986 - FRENCH FURZE, Tully East, Kildare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kildare

Site name: FRENCH FURZE, Tully East

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 02E0861

Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: 258 The Sycamores, Kilkenny

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 673805m, N 711805m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.151635, -6.896585

During topsoil-stripping for the Kildare Bypass Motorway a spread of dark soil was noted by the monitoring archaeologist, Ros Ó Maoldúin. After further investigations, a glacial origin was confirmed.