2004:1380 - EDEN ROAD, BIRR, Offaly

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Offaly Site name: EDEN ROAD, BIRR

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1196

Author: Ellen O'Carroll, The Archaeology Company, 17 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 605749m, N 705733m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.102142, -7.914144

Pre-development testing took place at Eden Road, Birr, Co. Offaly. The proposed development site is located adjacent to the zone of archaeological potential, to the rear of a row of early 19th-century labourers' cottages listed as protected structures in the Birr Town Development Plan (2004). The proposed development comprises the construction of four one-bedroomed apartments with associated works and an entrance from the road. Three trenches were excavated using a JCB with a 0.8m-wide toothless bucket. No subsurface features or finds of archaeological significance were uncovered during testing.