County: Kildare Site name: GLEBE NORTH, Old Kilcullen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 28:49 Licence number: 98E0344
Author: Clare Mullins
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 681714m, N 707545m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.112203, -6.779467
Test-trenching was carried out on 5 August 1998 at the site of a proposed development in Glebe North, Old Kilcullen. Testing was in compliance with a condition within the grant of planning for the construction of a private house, driveway and septic tank. The development site lies within the zone of archaeological potential for Old Kilcullen. The western site boundary coincides with the suggested western line of the town defences as defined in the Urban Archaeological Survey, and a low earthen bank, which appears to act as a field boundary, at present defines this western site boundary.
Four test-trenches were inserted within the area of greatest impact from the development. No archaeological deposits or artefacts were recovered during the excavation of these trenches. A feature visible on the ground surface as a shallow, linear depression running in a north-east to south-west direction, parallel to the western site boundary, proved to represent a field drain.
It was recommended that no further archaeological involvement was required at the site.
39 Kerdiff Park, Monread, Naas, Co. Kildare
