County: Kildare Site name: KILDARE: Church Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 93E0124
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 672435m, N 712631m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.159244, -6.916886
The site, on the corner of Church Lane and Heffernan's Lane, is located within the conjectured bounds of the Early Christian enclosure and the town walls. Apartments were planned for part of the site.
Three trial trenches revealed five pit-like features, some of which were cut into the boulder clay and some cut down from the surface. One of them had modern pottery in the fill while none of the others produced finds; one of them yielded a sequence of ash and clay with charcoal and animal bone.
Further investigation involved the removal of sod over a wider area. This produced several irregularly shaped pits/trenches which were filled with stones and which were interpreted as drainage features.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
