County: Wicklow Site name: Togher Beg
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 22E0255
Author: Yvonne Whitty
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 719108m, N 703252m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.066603, -6.222768
There are no recorded monuments within the development application area, a greenfield site. However, a recorded ‘Bullaun stone – present location’ (WI018-034) lies immediately outside the north-western corner of the proposed development site. A cluster of monuments are located c. 550m to the west; these comprise a ‘Church’ (WI018-001001), ‘Ecclesiastical enclosure’ (WI018-001002), ‘Font’ (WI018-001003) and two ‘Bullaun stones’ (WI018-001005 & WI018-001006).
The site was subject to geophysical survey under licence 22R0031 by J. M. Leigh Surveys Ltd in February 2022 as part of an FI Request. The geophysical survey was largely dominated by parallel linear trends which are suggestive of ridge and furrow cultivation. A possible former field division and trackway were also identified running approximately east-west. Possible pit-type features were evident, particularly within the eastern half of the dataset which may or may not be of archaeological significance.
Test trenching under licence of these trends and throughout the development site determined that they were not archaeological in origin, being either geological or agricultural in origin.
Archaeological monitoring of groundworks was carried out over two days in June 2023. The ground was stripped by a 20-tonne tracked machine with flat grading bucket. No finds or features or archaeological significance were exposed during the monitoring of groundworks.
Unit 10 Riverside Business Centre Tinahely Co. Wicklow
