County: Offaly Site name: Derryarkin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E1064
Author: Eoin Corcoran, Archaeological Development Services Ltd Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 647640m, N 736826m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.379462, -7.283972
Monitoring took place at a proposed quarry site at Derryarkin in November 2006. The topsoil and overlying peat were stripped with a 21-ton Hyundai 210 mechanical excavator using a six-foot-wide grading bucket. The average depth of topsoil and peat on the site was c. 1.02m, varying from a minimum of 0.3m to a maximum of 2m in depth. The peat was removed either directly on to gravel or in some instances on to a layer of marl which overlay gravel. No archaeological features or objects were recovered during the monitoring and inspection of Phase 1 of works on this site. Further phases are expected to take place in 2007.
