County: Kildare Site name: BARREEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0559
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 688831m, N 734626m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.354381, -6.665639
Five trenches tested the area of the proposed development, which comprised the construction of horseboxes with an access road near a church and graveyard at Barreen, Kilcock, Co. Kildare.
Trench 1 produced evidence of dumping of different layers of clay, presumably to raise the level of the ground surface. A small pit-like feature cut into natural subsoil was exposed. The peat-like fill produced medieval pottery and animal bones. The pottery dates to the 13th-15th centuries and suggests activity in the area at that time, although its nature and extent are not known and there were no other finds in the remainder of the trench.
Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed in the other trenches.
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