County: Kildare Site name: CLANE: Jones's Pub, Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0510
Author: Eoin Halpin, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 687532m, N 727627m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.291719, -6.687089
The site of the development at Jones's Pub, Main Street, Clane, lies within the zone of archaeological potential highlighted in the recent Medieval Urban Survey. The village is also the location of the early Irish monastery of Clane, or Cloenath, founded by St Ailbe at Cluain-damh on the River Liffey. Owing to the potential archaeological sensitivity of the development area, pre-development testing was requested as part of the planning conditions. This was carried out on 27 October 1998.
Two test-trenches were machine-excavated. The first was opened along the approximate centre line of the long axis of the development, with the second placed perpendicular to the first. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
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