An impact assessment will recommend minimum disturbance of an archaeological site, but some disturbance may be unavoidable. Where this is the case we might be called in to investigate ahead of the works. We assemble a team and cost the excavation and the likely specialist work on finds and samples.

The investigations at Dungarvan Castle (Co. Waterford) and Barryscourt (Co. Cork) were carried out over several years, working ahead of an OPW team conserving the monuments. We investigated and recorded material at risk from the works.

Excavations at St Saviours Priory, Limerick, at the former tannery, Dungarvan, and at Gradys Yard and Barronstrand Street, both in Waterford city, investigated the areas still at risk after the developments had been adjusted to cause minimum disturbance.