County: Kildare Site name: MONEYCOOLY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Jane Raftery and Valerie Keeley
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 694230m, N 735126m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.357938, -6.584419
A three-week excavation was undertaken in June 1987 in Moneycooly Td, at the request of Kildare Co. Council. The site lay immediately north of an area of low earthworks (seen on a St Joseph/Cambridge University air photograph) which possibly represented a deserted medieval settlement. The excavation was necessary to ascertain whether this area of low earthworks extended northwards into the line of a proposed motorway.
The excavation produced nothing to indicate that the area of low earthworks extended northwards. Two land drains were the main archaeological features found. The finds, which came mostly from the ploughed topsoil, included a spindle-whorl of porous sandstone, some flint and a few sherds of late and medieval pottery.
8 Farmhill Park, Goatstown, Dublin 14
