County: Kildare Site name: CELBRIDGE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 11:12(01) Licence number: 02E1677
Author: Eoin Corcoran, ACS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 697347m, N 733686m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.344439, -6.538048
Kildare County Council proposes to construct cycle paths and footpaths and thereby widen the R405 Maynooth to Celbridge road, taking in land that was part of a Famine burial-ground. An assessment was carried out on 8 November 2002 to determine whether archaeological deposits were present in the land adjacent to the disused burial-ground before development.
Originally, one trench was to be excavated by machine, but, given the location and the sensitive nature of the site, test-pits were excavated by hand. All revealed the same results. Directly below the sod and topsoil was a deposit of modern rubbish (cans, metal, plastic wire, rubble etc.) that lay directly on the natural clay. No archaeological features or deposits were exposed, and the ground was badly disturbed by 20th-century activity.
Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth
