2016:405 - DRINNANSTOWN SOUTH, Kildare
County: Kildare
Site name: DRINNANSTOWN SOUTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD017-051
Licence number: 14E0196 (Ext.)
Author: Billy Quinn, Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services
Author/Organisation Address: 3 Gort na Rí, Athenry, Co. Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 671189m, N 719398m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.220216, -6.934009
Monitoring for the extension of an Arkil quarry was carried out on the southern slope of Boston Hill, Drinnanstown South between 18 and 22 July 2016. The area comprised a strip in a broad arable field measuring 217m north-north-west/south-south-east by 94m wide. The works were carried out by a 22-tonne excavator with a flat ditching bucket. The topsoil was a light brown, silty clay with a depth of 0.3-0.35m overlaying a compact orange-grey natural clay and bedrock with occasional inclusions of roots and decayed stone. There was no archaeology found.