County: Dublin Site name: KILSHANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1191
Author: Gina Johnson, c/o Archaeological Services Unit, University College Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 710408m, N 742789m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.423648, -6.338816
The diversion of two gas pipelines by Bord Gáis was monitored over two and a half weeks in August and September 2004. The pipeline extended across three large fields which were under wheat and had been subject to reclamation in recent years, as evidenced by two ditches and a number of modern plastic and ceramic land drains noted during monitoring.
The removal of topsoil and excavation of the pipeline trenches were supervised and no archaeological features or artefacts were uncovered. The topsoil removal in the stopple locations to the north-east and south-west of the pipeline corridor was also monitored, but these were in areas already disturbed down on to the existing pipes.
