County: Kildare Site name: WALSHESTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Gretta Byrne and Valerie Keeley
Site type: Mound
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 680333m, N 712831m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.159908, -6.798761
A two-week excavation was undertaken in July 1987 at this site which was located on the route of the proposed Newbridge by-pass motorway and was funded by Kildare Co. Council.
The site consisted of an oval-shaped earthen mound measuring 11.55m by 5m and 1.5m high which, on excavation, was revealed to be a quite modern construction of probably redeposited topsoil containing a large quantity of modern pottery, glass, clay pipes and some stoneware and iron objects. All the finds were in a very fragmentary and often abraded condition and were dispersed throughout the mound material. Similar finds were located in the buried soil beneath the mound. A single small sherd of unglazed medieval pottery was found in the buried subsoil but was not associated with any archaeological feature.
Ballybrack, Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
