2024:533 - New CBS School Campus, Lousybush, Kilkenny, Kilkenny
County: Kilkenny
Site name: New CBS School Campus, Lousybush, Kilkenny
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK019-007----
Licence number: 23E0713
Author: Philip Kenny & Seán Shanahan; Shanarc Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Pit, ring-ditch
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 649331m, N 657232m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.664020, -7.270732
Archaeological monitoring of groundworks associated with the construction of a new school at Lousybush, Co. Kilkenny was carried out between October 2023 and May 2024.
The development site had previously been the subject of an Archaeological Impact Assessment by John Cronin & Associates, which included a programme of licenced archaeological testing (under licence no. 22E0154) and incorporated the use of a detection device (under licence no. 22R0067). This work identified three distinct areas of archaeological activity at the site, which were subsequently fully excavated under excavation licence no. 22E0547.
During archaeological monitoring (23E0713), a single feature of archaeological significance, comprising a probable waste pit (011), was recorded c. 6m south of the excavated monument KK019-007----, ring-ditch. This pit was similar to several features recorded during the earlier excavation and was probably associated with the monument. All other features and deposits recorded during the monitoring were of post-medieval origin.