2007:2009 - HEMPSTOWN: Blessington Quarry, Wicklow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wicklow

Site name: HEMPSTOWN: Blessington Quarry

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 07E0798

Author: Brendon Wilkins, Headland Archaeology Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 700417m, N 717250m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.196201, -6.497163

Testing was undertaken in August 2007 in advance of planning permission for the extension of two areas adjacent to an existing quarry. Work only revealed the presence of two linear plough furrows and a modern field boundary. No archaeological features or deposits of interest were revealed.