County: Carlow Site name: Friarstown and Ardnehue
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 23E0037
Author: Liam Coen c/o Courtney Deery Heritage Consultancy
Site type: Testing, various site types
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 679351m, N 676079m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.829817, -6.822467
Testing took place over 8 days from 7 February 2023. The purpose of the programme of archaeological testing was to establish if anomalies identified through geophysical surveys (Nichols 2021, Licence no. 21R0226 & Nichols 2023, Licence no. 22R0241) were archaeological and if so, the nature, extent and character of any remains. The testing revealed six areas of archaeological material. All had been first identified through geophysical survey and confirmed by test excavations. The six areas comprised three probable ring-ditches, and three clusters of pits. One of the pit clusters contained typical burnt mound material and may be the ploughed-out remains of such a site.
References:
Nichols, J. 2021 ‘Geophysical Survey Report. Proposed Ardnehue Solar Farm, In Ardnehue & Friarstown Townlands, County Carlow, Licence no. 21R0226’. Unpublished report prepared by Target Archaeological Geophysics.
Nichols, J. 2023 ‘Geophysical Survey Report. Phase 2 geophysical survey, Proposed solar farm & battery storage park in Friarstown townland, County Carlow, Licence no. 22R0241’. Unpublished report prepared by Target Archaeological Geophysics.
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