County: Wicklow Site name: Lathaleere Baltinglass
Sites and Monuments Record No.: None Licence number: 18E0121
Author: Yvonne Whitty
Site type: NOne
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 687527m, N 687738m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.933312, -6.698037
Pre-development archaeological testing was carried out at the site of a proposed development of twenty houses and an apartment block at Whitehall, Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow. The site is a green field site under rough pasture. The closest recorded monuments which are no longer extant are an enclosure and megalithic structure both of which are within 200m of the proposed development site.
In order to determine the presence or absence of archaeological finds or features 280m of trenches were excavated across the footprint of the development. The results of this programme of testing coupled with the desk based survey indicate that no archaeological features will be impacted upon by the proposed development.
A stray find of a possibly Neolithic flint blade was recovered from one of the test trenches in a matrix of topsoil and modern debris material. This find not in its original location could have been displaced during clearance work associated with the adjoining Whitehall housing estate.
The site of the proposed development was originally in lands associated with Whitehall Demesne which was in existence in 1838 and by 1908 the house associated with the demesne was in ruins. Agricultural furrows which contained nineteenth century pottery and a clay pipe stem were the only features identified.
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