County: Laois Site name: BALLYDAVIS/GREATHEATH/MORETT/ CAPPAKEEL/EMO PARK/BALLYSHANEDUFF OR THE DERRIES/TULLAGHAN/BALLYADDING/JAMESTOWN OR BALLYTEIGEDUFF/KILLAGLISH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0623
Author: Jonathan Dempsey, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 650503m, N 700735m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.054877, -7.246655
Monitoring of ancillary works for the M7 Heath-Mayfield motorway scheme, Contract 4, was undertaken from January to June 2004 in counties Kildare and Laois (see No. 790, Excavations 2004, for townlands crossed in County Kildare). Four sites of archaeological significance were identified in the course of the monitoring. Ballydavis 2, Co. Laois, was excavated by Deirdre Murphy (No. 936, Excavations 2004, 04E0856) and the others were resolved under the monitoring licence (see No. 836, Excavations 2004, Kill A, Co. Kildare, and Nos 934 and 938, Excavations 2004, Ballydavis A and Cappakeel C, Co. Laois).
