2003:955 - MAYNOOTH: McCormack's, Main Street, Kildare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kildare

Site name: MAYNOOTH: McCormack's, Main Street

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 03E1540

Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates

Author/Organisation Address: 7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 693783m, N 737845m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.382451, -6.590324

Testing was undertaken to the rear of McCormack’s Pharmacy, Main Street, in the eastern half of Maynooth. Although all the recorded monuments are located in the western half of the town, the extent of the medieval settlement is unknown.

Five trenches were excavated within the area of development. No features or finds of archaeological interest were uncovered.