County: Kildare Site name: CLANE: Jones's Pub, Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0510 ext.
Author: Eoin Halpin, ADS 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, is within the zone of archaeological potential highlighted in the recent Medieval Urban Survey. The village is also the location of the monastery of Clane, or Cloenath, founded by St Ailbe at Cluain-damh on the River Liffey. It appears in the early historical records in 549 and 782, and in 1162 Gelasius, archbishop of Armagh, held a synod at the monastery.
Three test-trenches were machine-excavated in October 1999. The first was opened along the approximate centre line of the long axis of the second phase of development, to the south of the first (Excavations 1998, 102). The second and third were placed in the footprint of a proposed carpark development to the west of the main construction area. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
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