County: Laois Site name: Cannonswood and Aghmacart, Contract 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A015/022; E2137
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 633688m, N 675634m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.830608, -7.500079
An assessment was carried out in February 2007 as part of the programme of archaeological works on the route of the proposed M7 Portlaoise to Castletown/M8 Portlaoise to Cullahill motorway scheme. This assessment of Contract 1: Testing Area 10 involved the mechanical excavation of one test-trench through the townland boundary between Cannonswood and Aghmacart. The boundary consisted of a hedgerow above a low earthen bank. No archaeological features or finds were exposed in the excavated trench.
