County: Kildare Site name: BRIDGE STREET, RATHANGAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0309
Author: John Kavanagh, National Archaeological Services Ltd, Ard Solas, Lackan, Blessington, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: Urban post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 666892m, N 719098m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.218085, -6.998399
A test excavation was carried out at Bridge Street, Rathangan, in March 2005. The site is situated within the zone of archaeological potential of the historic town of Rathangan (SMR 17:11). The excavation uncovered the remains of two cobbled surfaces and the base of a property boundary wall. The foundations of the wall ran east–west extending across the central area of the site. The wall follows the same alignment as the standing walls in the adjacent properties to the east and west, which suggests that the exposed section was part of this original wall. No datable evidence was available from the base of the wall, but it probably forms part of an old property division from the 19th or 20th centuries.
