County: Carlow Site name: BAUNOGEPHLURE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1380
Author: Rosanne Meenan, Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 681174m, N 676649m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.834676, -6.795278
Planning permission was obtained to construct eleven holiday homes as part of ongoing works at Killerrig Golf Course, Co. Carlow. Pre-development testing was required. The clubhouse is to be demolished and a hotel constructed. The current development site comprises the west ends of the gardens of two houses. The hotel site, located c. 150m south of Killerrig Castle (SMR 8:10), was tested by Emmet Stafford in 2005 (see No. 67 above). Ditches were exposed during the testing and the excavator suggested that one of them resembled the ditch of a moated site; there are several moated sites in the vicinity of the development.
Six trenches were excavated by a mechanical digger fitted with a 1.3m-wide toothless bucket. The remains of ten furrows were found. Eight of them ran in a general north-west/south-east direction; the other two ran in different directions. The widest was 0.9m wide. The deepest surviving depth was 0.1m. No artefacts were recovered and they were interpreted as representing the remains of agricultural furrows.
A circular area of charcoal-enriched soil was shown to be a cut feature, 0.3–0.4m in diameter and 0.12m deep. There was no burnt bone and no other artefacts. The function and date of the feature was not clear.
