2025:620 - Main Street, Castledermot, Kildare

Proposals to construct a residential development on a site on the eastern side of Main Street, Castledermot required that an Archaeological Impact Assessment be undertaken.

The proposed development site is located in the centre of Castledermot, the origins of which were as a monastic settlement of ninth-century date, adjacent to an urban settlement developed in the late twelfth century. Consequently, a Zone of Archaeological Interest/Potential (SMR No: KD040-002) has been established for the town and the subject site is positioned within the extent of such. However, there are no previously identified features or structures of archaeological interest located within, or in the immediate environs of, the site.

A programme of Archaeological Testing was undertaken within the site. A total of thirteen trenches, of varying lengths and orientations, were excavated, the locations of which were generally reflective of the subject development proposals; the results indicate that much of the site was disturbed by construction-related works in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, as recorded on historic O.S. maps, and no subsurface features of archaeological interest or potential were uncovered. A total of eight sherds of medieval pottery were recovered.