County: Kilkenny Site name: Killaloe
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK022-01803 Licence number: 22E0508
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 639560m, N 647988m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.581740, -7.416276
An archaeological impact assessment was required as part of seeking planning permission to build a dwelling house and undertake associated site works at Killaloe, Callan, Co. Kilkenny. Due to the location of a recorded archaeological monument, a Church (KK022-018003), on the plot immediately to the east of the development site, a programme of archaeological testing was implemented as part of an archaeological assessment and following on from the results of a Geophysical Survey. The church is denoted on the 1839 OS map as R.C. Chapel. Rev. Carrigan suggests this was a penal chapel, of late 17th/18th-century date, which was demolished in 1859 to make way for the present day RC Church.
A total of five test trenches were opened. Four were sited on the imprint of the proposed works whilst another was located on the site of the two faint parallel linear trends and an isolated feature which were identified in the Geophysical Survey.
The four trenches on the imprint of the proposed construction works were featureless with relative consistent stratigraphy across all openings. Within test trench No. 1, which was located on anomalies identified in the Geophysical Survey, a modern pit had been dug, probably by the landowner to facilitate the burial of an animal. The trench clipped the pit, with its remainder extending beneath the trench’s east baulk. Regarding the two faint parallel linear trends, these were very ephemeral and considered of variations in the natural deposition.
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