2007:790 - CASTLESIZE, Kildare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kildare

Site name: CASTLESIZE

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 07E0964

Author: Robert O’Hara, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 688089m, N 724320m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.261912, -6.679640

A realignment of the R407 between Sallins and Castlesize, Co. Kildare, required monitoring of topsoil removal. The realignment was part of an ongoing upgrade of the R407 between Kilcock and Sallins. Further work is planned between Clane and Kilcock in 2008. Subsoil was encountered at 0.25–0.4m. No archaeological finds or features were encountered.