Archaeological testing was conducted by Eachtra Archaeological Projects along the proposed route of the N25 realignment from Rathsillagh to Harristown, Co. Wexford. The proposed routeway was stripped by machine (under licence 00E0379) and in Bricketstown townland a number of agri
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This report presents the results of an eight-week excavation of a disturbed ringfort (GA087-177) or enclosure in the townland of Loughbown, Ballinasloe, County Galway. The site had an internal bank, partly protected on its southern side by an extant field boundary and an exter
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This excavation revealed the extant remains of a late medieval, mixed feed, permanent lime kiln in the townland of Cullenagh More. The lime kiln consisted of a square structure with a kiln pot measuring, roughly, 3.5 m across and with a surviving depth of 1.5 m. There was a centr
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Eachtra Archaeological Projects were commissioned by Laois County Council and the National Roads Authority to undertake archaeological works along 17.1 km (Contact 1) of the 35km N7 Castletown to Nenagh (Derrinsallagh to Ballintotty) national road scheme (EIS approved in November
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The excavation of the site at Killeisk comprised a mixture of Early Bronze Age activity and high and late medieval activity. Two separate groups of pits dated to the Early Bronze Age. A large elliptical enclosure and associated linear features, which formed field enclosures and d
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