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2004:0939 - CASTLEBRACK, Laois

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Laois

Site name: CASTLEBRACK

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 04E1048

Author: John Purcell

Author/Organisation Address: 17 Balmoral Terrace, Dillon's Cross, Cork

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 640251m, N 716190m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.194635, -7.397641

Test-trenching was carried out as part of the planning schedule for a single-house development adjacent to a graveyard, tower-house and deserted settlement (SMR 1:4) at Castlebrack, Killeigh. A series of trenches were excavated by mechanical digger at the house site, entrance and percolation area. No features or finds of archaeological significance were revealed.


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