County: Offaly Site name: Breaghmore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0284
Author: Martin Doody, New Road, Portlaoise.
Site type: Cultivation furrow?
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 616037m, N 702533m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.073178, -7.760679
A planning application was submitted to erect a new dwelling house incorporating garage, effluent treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. This application is the subject of a further information request which included that the site should be tested prior to development.
The site is situated in undulating lowland in Breaghmore townland, Co. Offaly. At the time of excavation the area was in rich pasture. The site is located on the boundary of the archaeological exclusion zone around OF036–038. This monument has been levelled in the past and no surface traces of the site were evident on the ground at the time of excavation. The trial excavation on the footprint of the proposed development produced only a single archaeological feature in Trench 2, the possible base of a cultivation furrow.
