County: Kilkenny Site name: SKEOGHVASTEEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0436
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 668335m, N 649444m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.591978, -6.991434
Testing took place at a site at Skeoghvasteen, Tomnahaha for which a planning application was made for the construction of ten detached houses with garages, access roads, services and landscaping. The lands are located c. 90m to the north-west of a holy well site (KK025–021). Five trenches were excavated by machine fitted with a toothless ditching/grading bucket, following which the sides and bases were cleaned by hand and examined. In addition, the spoil was raked through in order to determine the artefact-bearing potential of the topsoil. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered during the course of testing.
