County: Kildare Site name: WOODLANDS EAST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002959
Author: Tom Janes, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 676346m, N 685150m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.911763, -6.864921
This site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme, Phase 3: Kilcullen to Carlow. Excavation was undertaken in October 2007. The site was in a bog at the southern end of Woodlands East townland and consisted of a stone layer. There was also a large, partially quarried granite stone sticking out of the bog.
Pre-development test-trenching undertaken by CRDS Ltd identified the quarried stone and stone layer and interpreted it as a by-product of stone quarrying, and the age probably being post-medieval.
Excavation revealed more of the quarried stone and associated stone layer. It was again interpreted as being post-medieval. The quarried stone and stone layer were probably contemporary with each other, although no finds were recovered. The site is not archaeologically significant.
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