2025:164 - Broomhall, Keatingstown, Wicklow, Wicklow
County: Wicklow
Site name: Broomhall, Keatingstown, Wicklow
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a
Licence number: 25E0413
Author: Maeve McCormick
Author/Organisation Address: Archer Heritage Planning, Unit 1, Tenure Business Park, Co Louth A92 K2VF
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 729169m, N 694331m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.984135, -6.076305
Three test trenches totalling 254 linear metres were excavated on lands at Broomhall, Keatingstown, Wicklow town. Works took place on 29 May 2025. The desk-based assessment was undertaken in October 2024, followed by geophysical survey (25R0067) in February 2025 and test trench excavations in May of the same year.
The topsoil measured between 0.02–0.1m in depth, suggesting that this portion of the site might have been stripped and levelled in the recent past. The subsoil comprised light yellowish-grey sandy-silt with high concentrations of small stones and patches of gravel. The curvilinear feature discovered during geophysical survey and interpreted as potential archaeology appeared as a natural change within the geology of the subsoil.
Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded in the course of test excavation.