2004:1873 - LATHALEERE, Wicklow
County: Wicklow
Site name: LATHALEERE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 04E0315
Author: Ellen O'Carroll, The Archaeology Company
Author/Organisation Address: 17 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 687731m, N 687836m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.934163, -6.694965
Pre-development testing was carried out at a proposed development site comprising housing, recycling centre and industrial units at Lathaleere, Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow. The site is near an area of high archaeological potential.
The area to be developed is c. 30 acres in size. The site, which slopes down towards the River Slaney flood-plains, is under pasture as well as the marshy flood-plain terrain closest to the river. A series of test-trenches located c. 20m apart were excavated in the area under pasture. No testing was carried out in the flood-plain area, as there will be no developments there. There was nothing of archaeological interest noted in the test-trenches.