2020:129 - GREYSTONES: Castle Villas, Killincarrig, Wicklow
County: Wicklow
Site name: GREYSTONES: Castle Villas, Killincarrig
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WI013-005----
Licence number: 20E0398
Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co Louth.
Site type: Charcoal-making site
Period/Dating: Undetermined
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.