2024:836 - Ballinowlart South, Offaly
County: Offaly
Site name: Ballinowlart South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 24E0536
Author: Martin E. Byrne
Author/Organisation Address: Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 662058m, N 718062m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.209355, -7.070977
A programme of testing was undertaken in part preparation of an Archaeological Impact Assessment requested by the Planning Authority with respect to an application to construct a single residence at Ballinowlart South, Bracknagh, Co. Offaly
In summary, the north-western extent of the subject development plot is located within the RMP Zone established for a church and graveyard site (OF028-003) but outside the associated easternmost extent of the SMR Zone of Notification
A programme of intrusive archaeological testing, comprising the machine excavation of eleven trenches, was undertaken within the footprint of the proposed development/construction areas. No subsurface features of archaeological interest or potential were uncovered in any of the excavated trenches; likewise no artefacts of archaeological or historical interest were recovered from the excavations or by the subsequent raking-over of the generated spoil material.