County: Kildare Site name: COLBINSTOWN HOUSE, Colbinstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD032-045 Licence number: 04E1165
Author: Antoine Giacometti, for Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 683609m, N 698597m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.031515, -6.753495
The excavation involved opening three test-trenches in advance of proposed extension works at Colbinstown House. The house dates to the 19th or 20th centuries but lies on the site of Colbinstown Castle, a tower-house constructed around 1465.
The testing discovered a north-south-running stone-lined drain that measured 0.10–0.18m wide and 0.24m high (interior dimensions). No artefacts were found within the drain. A possible shoe fragment composed of numerous small nails hammered into a piece of wood or leather found between the stones lining the drain may suggest a post-medieval date.
71 The Coombe, Dublin 8
