County: Kildare Site name: KILDARE: Bride Street (Rear of)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0187
Author: Martin E. Byrne
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 671709m, N 711950m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.153224, -6.927890
An archaeological evaluation was carried out at a proposed development site at Bride Street, Kildare, on 24 April 1999. The work was undertaken in compliance with a request from the NMHPS, Dúchas, as the site is within the designated zone of archaeological potential associated with Kildare town.
Five trenches were mechanically excavated within the confines of the site. The results indicated that the entire site had previously been disturbed. There is a probability that the levels across the site had been reduced sometime in the past and that the area had been subsequently filled. The relatively flat surface of the site in comparison with the existing slope on Bride Street, the difference in levels between the surface of the site and the area to the immediate north, and the 'modern' nature of the fill material (Layer 1) would all appear to testify to this conclusion. It is possible that the levels were originally reduced in order to provide soil to level up the school site to the immediate north.
Two sherds of probable medieval pottery were recovered from a disturbed context.
31 Millford, Athgarvan, Co. Kildare
