County: Kildare Site name: MAYNOOTH: 8 Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1452 EXT.
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 693798m, N 737815m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.382173, -6.590106
An assessment of the site undertaken in 2002 (Excavations 2002, No. 955, 02E1452) revealed the presence of a north–south-extending medieval or early medieval ditch on this proposed development site. A c. 30m length of the ditch was excavated in 2003. It proved to be of medieval date, having 13th–14th-century pottery in its base. It remained open until the site was developed in the mid-18th century. It measured up to 2.6m in width and 1.1m in depth. The remains of an 18th- and 19th-century stone-lined drain, a well and cistern overlay the ditch. It seems likely that the ditch was simply a field boundary, but it forms part of the line of a putative large enclosure surrounding the earlier part of the town.
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