2016:361 - MORTARSTOWN UPPER, Carlow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Carlow

Site name: MORTARSTOWN UPPER

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 16E0086

Author: Aidan O'Connell, Archer Heritage Planning

Author/Organisation Address: 8 Beat Centre, Stephenstown, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 671182m, N 674484m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.816625, -6.944015

An assessment was carried out at the site of the proposed IT Carlow Sports Campus, a 12.7ha green-field site in Mortarstown Upper, Co. Carlow. A geophysical survey of the site (16R0028) was carried out followed by targeted test trenching. A total of 22 trenches were mechanically excavated across the site under archaeological supervision. No archaeological material was recorded in any of the trenches.