County: Kildare Site name: MULLATINE, Rathangan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0728
Author: Martin E. Byrne
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 666892m, N 719098m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.218085, -6.998399
Monitoring was undertaken at a residential development site at Mullatine, Rathangan, Co. Kildare, from 3 to 12 November 1999. The site is immediately to the south of the zone of archaeological potential of Rathangan (SMR 17–11), a town with early medieval origins and subsequent Anglo-Norman activity.
The monitoring of ground reductions associated with the development indicated that the topsoil was 0.25–0.4m deep. In addition, the undisturbed subsoils were reduced by up to 0.1m.
No features, structures or deposits of archaeological interest or potential were uncovered during the monitoring. However, a total of 56 sherds of pottery were recovered. It is probable that such pottery was introduced to the site from the nearby village. Analysis of the pottery sherds, undertaken by Clare McCutcheon, indicated that 25 were medieval (Leinster cooking ware and locally(?) made glazed and unglazed wares) and one was a 17th-century sherd from North Devon, with the remainder dating to the 18th/19th centuries.
31 Millford, Athgarvan, Co. Kildare
