2007:113 - Rathercan, Carlow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Carlow Site name: Rathercan

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0730

Author: Miriam Carroll, Tobar Archaeological Services, Saleen, Midleton, Cork.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 678304m, N 662612m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.708965, -6.841208

Monitoring of topsoil removal for a wastewater treatment plant at Rathercan, Fennagh, Co. Carlow, was carried out over one day. Topsoil was stripped over an area measuring c. 60m by 30m and natural boulder clay was exposed throughout. No archaeological finds, features or deposits were uncovered during monitoring.