County: Carlow Site name: Linkardstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0275
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology, Rothe House, Kilkenny.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 674560m, N 670632m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.781558, -6.894778
Carlow County Council requested an impact assessment at Linkardstown, Tinryland, Co. Carlow, in advance of a decision on a planning application for two single houses. The proposed development area was located c. 150m from the area of constraint for CW012–09001 to CW012–09003 (enclosures) and c. 400m from the area of constraint for CW012–017 (Linkardstown burial). An archaeological air survey (Barrett 2002) identified the previously unknown sites CW012–09101–03 (enclosures) in an oblique aerial photograph (GB89.O.26), which showed cropmarks forming a complex sequence of fosses defining three conjoined enclosures incorporating curvilinear, rectilinear and trapezoidal components. The Linkardstown cist burial was discovered in 1944 during ploughing (Raftery 1944, 61–2). Today the site is covered by an orchard and there is no surface trace of it.
Testing failed to uncover anything of archaeological significance within the cuttings opened.
References
Barrett, G.F. 2002 Flights of discovery: archaeological air survey in Ireland, 1989–2000. Journal of Irish Archaeology XI, 1–30.
Raftery, J. 1944 A Neolithic burial in Co. Carlow. Journal of the Royal Society of Irish Antiquaries 74, 61–2.
