County: Kildare Site name: KILDARE: St Brigid's Square
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0322
Author: Martin E. Byrne
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 672554m, N 712124m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.154673, -6.915222
An archaeological evaluation was undertaken at a proposed development site at St Brigid's Square, Kildare, on 28 July 1998. The work was undertaken in compliance with a condition of the grant of planning pertaining to the development. The site lies within the designated zone of archaeological potential associated with Kildare town, to the south of the proposed line of the outer early medieval monastic enclosure and the later medieval defences.
The archaeological trial-trenching consisted of the mechanical excavation of five trenches within the confines of the development site. The results indicated that much of the site had not been disturbed before the commencement of the evaluation. However, the foundation remains of a building illustrated in the 1908 map of Kildare were uncovered on the northern end of the site.
One single sherd of medieval pottery was recovered from a disturbed context.
Given that no deposits, structures or artefacts in an undisturbed context were recovered during the course of the work, it was recommended that no further archaeological involvement was required at the site.
39 Kerdiff Park, Monread, Naas, Co. Kildare
