County: Kildare Site name: BALLYMORE EUSTACE: Cnoc Avon, Bishopsland
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD029-011001- Licence number: 03E1337
Author: Red Tobin, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Quarry
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 692798m, N 709965m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.132137, -6.613251
Testing was required in advance of a private development because of the proximity of the site to the zone of archaeological potential around the urban area of Ballymore Eustace. Testing was carried out in September 2003, during which three trenches were opened. The evidence from all trenches and from the local landscape indicates that this field has been subject to serious disturbance and subsequent reinstatement. The trenches revealed evidence for a sand quarry, which had been backfilled with domestic and construction refuse. Some of the infill material appears post-medieval in date but is mixed with 19th-century material. This may suggest that the quarry was excavated to facilitate the construction of Cnoc Avon House in the 19th century. The infill material may have been imported to the site to enable full reinstatement of the site prior to occupation.
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