County: Laois Site name: KILLAGLISH (Site 11)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0239
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 660911m, N 707512m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.114687, -7.090142
An aerial survey in advance of the M7 Heath–Mayfield Motorway Scheme revealed a circular cropmark in a field alongside the River Barrow, near the spot where a bronze sword was previously found. Mud dredged from the river had been spread on the field from time to time.
The cropmark was not on the road-take but directly beside it. A test excavation was carried out. A trench 10m long by 2m wide was excavated by machine along the side of the road-take at this point and five offsets, each measuring 10m by 2m, were extended back from this. The ploughsoil, mostly dark-brown, ranged in depth from 0.17 to 0.25m. It overlay light-grey clay, which was the natural subsoil. The only features found were the bases of furrows from modern deep ploughing, slightly cutting into the grey clay, and a drainage ditch with a ceramic drain. No features or artefacts related to any site which may be represented by the cropmark were found.
13 Wainsfort Crescent, Dublin 6W
