County: Carlow Site name: SITE 3.18, CLOGHRISTICK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A021/048
Author: Joanne Hughes, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 4b, Europa Enterprise Park, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Site type: Tailrace
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 670997m, N 669649m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.773204, -6.947804
This site had been designated as an area of high archaeological potential during Contract 3 testing on the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme and therefore was one of the sites which had a predesigned testing strategy assigned to it. The site comprised the remains of a possible tailrace associated with a mill in Cloghristick townland. This feature appeared on the first-edition OS map of the area, and a possible medieval date was postulated.
Investigations identified the possible tailrace in the form of a substantial ditch orientated north-north-west/south-south-east. No finds earlier than the post-medieval period were recovered, but this does not preclude the possibility of it being an earlier feature. A more extensive area is to be investigated around this feature in the resolution phase of works.
