County: Carlow Site name: BUSHERSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A021/020
Author: Caitriona Gleeson, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 4b, Europa Enterprise Park, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Site type: Roadway?
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 677573m, N 675899m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.828459, -6.848876
This report deals with the results of testing of Area 2 of Archaeological Services Contract 3, N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. Area 2 ran from Russellstown to Moyle Big townlands. Fourteen areas of archaeological significance were identified (Sites 1–14: A021/016–29, see No. 54 above and Nos 71–78 and 97–100 below). Test-trenching of two adjoining fields in Busherstown townland uncovered the remains of a possible roadway. This comprised a crudely cobbled and metalled surface which ran broadly north-west/south-east along the eastern boundaries of two fields. The roadway was 2m in average width and consisted of small and medium stones and pebbles (cobbles) contained within a matrix of light-brown silty clay and set into the underlying clay subsoil. The surface was 0.05m in average depth and test-trenches excavated to its west failed to identify any evidence of a flanking ditch. One oyster shell and a sherd of post-medieval pottery were excavated from the interface between the surface and the overlying shallow topsoil.
