2007:1074 - PORTLAOISE: Church Street, Laois
County: Laois
Site name: PORTLAOISE: Church Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 07E0031
Author: John Purcell
Author/Organisation Address: 17 Balmoral Terrace, Dillon’s Cross, Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 646946m, N 698464m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.034786, -7.300044
Test-trenching was carried out prior to a proposed development in the centre of Portlaoise. The site is adjacent to a 16th-century church and graveyard. A series of trenches was subsequently excavated by mechanical digger across the site. No features or finds of archaeological significance were revealed.