County: Kildare Site name: LEIXLIP: Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD011-004001- Licence number: 03E1553
Author: Melanie McQuade, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 700955m, N 735941m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.364023, -6.483173
On 25 September, testing was carried out on the site of a proposed residential development located to the south of buildings fronting onto Mill Lane and south-east of the site of Black Castle. Five trenches were excavated across the site. The stratigraphy varied little. It comprised 0.25–0.5m of topsoil overlying 0.25m of mid-brown sandy soil with occasional pebbles, 0.15m of orange sand with very occasional pieces of charcoal and fragments of animal bone, and natural ground, which was stony gravel. A number of artefacts dating to the medieval and post-medieval periods were recovered from each of the trenches, but only one archaeological feature was identified. This was a small pit (0.5m north–south by 0.4m) in the centre of the site. Its fill was black, charcoal-rich soil with mortar. The fill was 60mm deep and a sherd of blackware recovered from it indicates that it is of 18th–19th-century date.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
