County: Offaly Site name: KILBRIDE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 16:21 Licence number: 02E0291
Author: Áine Richardson, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 630294m, N 725328m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.277417, -7.545771
Testing was carried out at Kilbride, Co. Offaly, before the construction of a one-storey dwelling, garage and associated services. The site is c. 100m south-west of a church and graveyard. The church is medieval, and the graveyard contains several 18th- and 19th-century headstones (O’Brien and Sweetman 1997, 99). Although the site is now primarily agricultural land, an examination of the first-edition OS 6-inch map showed that a building existed on the western part of the site at the time of survey. This was on the eastern side of, and adjacent to, a north–south-oriented field boundary that is also visible on the first-edition map, dividing the present site in two.
Five trenches were opened. Three were completely sterile, and the other two contained a thin layer of burnt clay, of post-medieval origin.
Reference
O’Brien, C. and Sweetman, P.D. 1997 Archaeological inventory of County Offaly. Dublin.
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