County: Kilkenny Site name: KILLASPY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0258
Author: Linda Hegarty, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 661376m, N 615305m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.285989, -7.100408
Waterford City Council proposes to construct an 18km bypass around Waterford city, with associated link roads. The route forms part of the N25 and runs from Kilmeaden in Co. Waterford to Slieverue in Co. Kilkenny. The work outlined here was undertaken at Site 8 in the townland of Killaspy, Co. Kilkenny, as part of pre-construction investigations of the N25 Waterford bypass, Contract 3. On this site, testing by Dave Pollock identified a possible archaeological feature (Excavations 2003, No. 1030, 02E0196). Full resolution was carried out in April 2004. The National Roads Authority through Waterford City Council administered the total archaeological cost.
Following topsoil-stripping of an area measuring 627m2, one silted linear feature and seven stone-filled land drains were identified. In the linear feature, the upper fill of mid-brown silty clay was overlying small to medium stones. There was free-flowing water at the base of these stones, prompting interpretion of it as a drain.
No artefacts or features of an archaeological nature were identified during this excavation.
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