County: Kildare Site name: CELBRIDGE: Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1829
Author: Ken Wiggins, Judith Carroll & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 697293m, N 733069m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.338907, -6.539048
Testing took place in November 2003 in advance of the construction of a three-storey building fronting onto Main Street, Celbridge. The rear of the site to the east was bounded by the River Liffey. The testing comprised the mechanical excavation of six trial cuttings.
A deposit of stony, dark-grey silty clay, potentially of archaeological interest, was exposed at the base of Cutting 1. Cutting 2 revealed the remains of a large pit containing a basal fill of pungent black organic sediment. The upper fill contained one fragment of red brick and two sherds of post-medieval pottery. A shallow linear feature was also identified in this cutting. A possible pit-type feature was identified in Cutting 6, associated with a sherd of medieval pottery. Cuttings 3–5 contained no features or deposits of archaeological significance.
In general, testing revealed much evidence for relatively recent activity/disturbance below ground level. However, some of the cuttings showed that the remains of isolated negative features of medieval and post-medieval date were present.
13 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
