County: Offaly Site name: Killeigh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0356
Author: John Purcell, 17 Balmoral Terrace, Dillon’s Cross, Cork.
Site type: Burials
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 636735m, N 718317m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.214000, -7.450000
Test-trenching was carried out as part of a pre-planning schedule for a housing development within the zone of potential for ecclesiastical remains of Killeigh, Co. Offaly. A series of trenches were excavated by mechanical digger at the house sites, road networks and green spaces. A number of burials were uncovered in Trenches 1 and 2 at the east of the proposed development. These are limited to the east of the site and the development plans have been adjusted to allow a 10m buffer zone around these features. No excavation will take place within this area. After recording the burials, they were covered in geotextile and the trenches were backfilled. The burials were on average 0.4m below ground level and were orientated east–west.
