County: Kilkenny Site name: Garrynarea, Pilltown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 23E0538
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 644244m, N 623866m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.364578, -7.350366
Archaeological monitoring was carried out at Garrynarea, Pilltown, Co. Kilkenny
in August 2023. A total of six test trenches were excavated across the site, measuring 1.8m in width, with a total overall length of 1,701 linear metres. The sod and topsoil were found to measure between 0.35m and 0.43m in thickness and lay directly above the natural orange sandy clay and stone. No archaeological features or deposits were exposed, and no finds were recovered.
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