2009:859 - BERRYFIELD LANE, FASSAROE, Wicklow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wicklow Site name: BERRYFIELD LANE, FASSAROE

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0225

Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 722868m, N 718132m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.199420, -6.160990

Testing was undertaken in May 2009 of proposed development lands at Berryfield Lane, Fassaroe, in compliance with a planning condition with respect to the development of the lands for playing pitches, as well as the construction of a new clubhouse. There are no known monuments located within 500m of the site, which has a total area of 2.2ha. A total of 54 trenches of varying lengths and orientations were excavated by machine fitted with a toothless ditching bucket. No features, deposits or artefacts of archaeological interest were uncovered during the course of the works.