2003:2353 - ATHY INNER RELIEF STREET, Kildare
County: Kildare
Site name: ATHY INNER RELIEF STREET
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD035-022
Licence number: 03E1695
Author: Stephen J. Linnane, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, County Louth
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 668327m, N 694015m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.992503, -6.982257
Athy is a medieval town designated as a zone of archaeological potential. Test-trenches were excavated on either side of the River Barrow in the area of proposed bridge abutments associated with a project to build a relief street within the town. Trenches were excavated, to a maximum depth of c. 2.75m, through recent deposits onto what were thought to be natural gravels. No archaeological artefacts or features were uncovered in the course of the testing.