County: Kildare Site name: 'RESUREXIT', Rathernan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Neil O'Flanagan, Archaeological Development Services Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 678733m, N 723528m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.256268, -6.820036
A watching brief was carried out on the excavation of trenches for an extension to the meeting hall 'Resurexit' on 13–14 May 1992. The extension was carried out in the rear garden and field. The site was adjacent to a large ecclesiastical enclosure containing a graveyard and the ruins of a sandstone church and the trenches were observed with a view to any possible extension of the ecclesiastical settlement beyond the dry stone wall which encircled it. The trenches in the rear garden revealed a deep deposit of modern garden soil overlying 0.32m of mid-brown sandy clay of uncertain date. The underlying boulder clay was formed by a red-brown loam. The sandy clay did not reveal archaeological finds.
Several trenches were cut in the field to the rear of the garden and adjacent to the enclosure wall for drainage purposes revealing a shallow fosse 0.5m deep and 3m wide. The fosse was filled, however, with modern finds and it was thought likely that the fosse had been cut recently.
Since no archaeological material was recovered during the watching brief the extension was allowed to proceed.
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