County: Kildare Site name: CADAMSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 3:01501 and 3:01502 Licence number: 00E0890
Author: Hilary Opie
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 671280m, N 739195m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.398092, -6.928192
Pre-development test-trenching was carried out at Cadamstown, Co. Kildare, on 18 November 2000. The site lies adjacent to a children’s burial-ground and associated cross base.
Two trenches were excavated, at the points where the development ran closest to the burial-ground. Trench 1 lay 20m south of the monument and was 10m long (north–south), 2m wide and 0.43m deep. Trench 2 lay 30m west of the burial-ground and was 10m long (east–west), 2m wide and 0.55m deep. Stratigraphy in both trenches was very similar, consisting of compact, orange-brown, boulder clay subsoil c. 0.2–0.4m below the current ground surface. Overlying this was ploughsoil/topsoil, c. 0.13–0.35m deep, and overlying this was the sod, c. 0.05m thick.
No archaeological finds or features were noted in either trench. In particular, there were no pieces of human bone to suggest that the burial-ground ever extended beyond its current boundaries.
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