County: Kildare Site name: GRANEY EAST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0052 ext.
Author: Martin E. Byrne
Site type: Burial ground
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 681675m, N 683943m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.900136, -6.786017
The final phase of topsoil-stripping associated with a quarry development was carried out in early February 2001. Two individual human skeletons were excavated at the site during 1999 and 2000, and the remains of a cemetery were uncovered and investigated during 2000 (Excavations 1999, No. 383; Excavations 2000, No. 484). No additional features or deposits of archaeological interest or potential were uncovered during the final phase of topsoil-stripping.
A total of fifteen sherds of pottery were recovered during the entire course of monitoring. All were submitted for analysis to Clare McCutcheon, who reported that one sherd of 17th-century North Devon ware was included in the assemblage, with the remainder being of medieval date, including locally produced ware, Leinster cooking ware and pottery from Wiltshire and France.
31 Millford, Athgarvan, Co. Kildare
