County: Wicklow Site name: Castle Villas, Killincarrig, Greystones
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WI013-005---- Licence number: 20E0398
Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Site type: Possible charcoal-production pit
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 728627m, N 711282m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.136525, -6.077603
Archaeological test trenching was carried out at Castle Villas, Killincarrig, Greystones, Co. Wicklow on 7 August 2020 using a 5-tonne excavator.
The site is located within the townland of Killincarrig, in the north-east part of Killincarrig village, within a long rectangular plot accessed via a laneway running north-south from Castle Villas (L5222). It is located on a vacant plot within a residential area, adjacent to and north of WI013-005----, House - 16th/17th century. This monument is also a Protected Structure, RPS 08-29, as listed in the Wicklow County Development Plan 2016-2022. In 2006 testing took place under licence 06E0113 on an adjacent site to the north-west, but no features of archaeological significance were noted.
A total of 3 test trenches, measuring 1.3m in width, were excavated. In general, the average thickness of the sod and topsoil measured between c. 0.18-0.26m and lay above a compact orange clay subsoil that was exposed at a depth between c. 0.18-0.27m.
Only one possible pit was identified within Trench 1. The pit measured 2.1m in length, 0.7m in width and c. 0.15m in depth and had been filled with a grey gravelly clay and a layer of charcoal.
No other features of archaeological significance were exposed or identified, and no finds were recovered.
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