County: Kildare Site name: BALLINDERRY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0050
Author: Brian Halpin, National Archaeological Services
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 668682m, N 738368m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.391001, -6.967438
Monitoring was carried out as an element of an ongoing monitoring/rescue excavation in advance of the development of a quarry site in Ballinderry, Carbury, Co. Kildare. This testing was carried out in conjunction with a monitoring/rescue excavation in the same field (see No. 727, Excavations 2005, 04E1638) and was part of recommendations of an assessment carried out by Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd. This assessment called for the investigation of the development in two phases. Phase 1 called for monitoring of roughly 85% of the development. This phase is ongoing and to date has uncovered a single Bronze Age pit containing sherds of pottery, a post-medieval area of unidentified disturbance and a medieval cemetery with enclosing ditch.
Phase 2 of the investigation called for testing of an area of archaeological potential in the extreme eastern end of the development. This was carried out over the course of two days. Nothing of an archaeological or historical nature was encountered. This area of the development will be subject to further monitoring as part of the overall site investigation.
Ard Solas, Lacken, Co. Wicklow
