County: Carlow Site name: Baunogephlure
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - 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, -6.795277
Planning permission was granted for eleven holiday homes as part of ongoing works at Killerrig golf-course, Co. Carlow; pre-development testing was required. Six trenches were excavated by mechanical digger fitted with a 1.3m-wide toothless bucket. The remains of ten furrows were found. Eight ran in a general north-west/south-east direction, the other two ran in different directions. The widest was 0.9m, 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.
Planning permission was subsequently granted for a sewage treatment works at the golf-course. The site of the treatment works comprises a rectangular area along the west side of a field fence which forms the western limit of the golf club. Topsoil was removed from parts of the site in the recent past and the field has been intensively tilled over the years. Eight test-trenches were excavated in the development area. No archaeological features were exposed and no artefacts were recovered.
