County: Carlow Site name: Bagenalstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 16E0300
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates
Site type: No Archaeological Features Uncovered
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 670168m, N 661823m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.702982, -6.961765
Monitoring of Geotechnical Site Investigations was undertaken at Bagenalstown as part of the County Carlow Water Conservation programme - Countywide Advance Priority Stages 2 & 3 Mains Rehabilitation Works. The overall Geotechnical Site Investigations Programme with respect to the Project was subjected to a non-intrusive Archaeological Impact Assessment which was submitted to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht - National Monuments Service for consultation. With respect to Bagenalstown, it was agreed that excavations of site investigations along Singleton’s Lane be monitored on a full-time basis and that a random selection of trial pits and slit trenches in the Pairc Mhuire area be monitored under licence.
A total of 18 Slit Trenches and 8 Trial Pits were excavated, of which 10 Slit Trenches and 5 Trial Pits were monitored. Removal of the tarmac surface and associated formation materials revealed moderately compact brown sandy silty gravel/clay with moderate pebbles, cobbles and small stones dispersed randomly throughout. This layer, which was identified as geological subsoil, was truncated extensively by services. The roads and streets along which the investigations were undertaken have been the subject of extensive ground disturbance and reduction works, associated with widening and service works, construction and surfacing works, as well as the provision of footpaths, etc.
No subsurface features, structures or deposits of archaeological potential were uncovered and no artefacts of archaeological/historical interest were recovered during the programme of monitoring.
7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
