County: Kildare Site name: Kildare Town Sewerage Scheme
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0930
Author: Aisling Collins, CRDS Ltd, Unit 4, Dundrum Business Park, Dublin 14.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 672925m, N 712604m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.158934, -6.909568
Monitoring of slit trenches for the proposed Kildare town sewerage scheme was undertaken on behalf of Kildare County Council. The trenches varied in depth from 1.5 to 4.5m and the width varied from 0.9 to 2.5m where twin pipes were to be laid in parallel. The areas monitored were: the foul sewer along Dunmurry Road from immediately north of the graveyard to a new pumping station (Dunmurry Road Pumping Station) located just north of the railway line; the pumping station on Dunmurry Road just north of the railway line (Dunmurry Road Pumping Station); the rising main from the proposed Dunmurry Road Pumping Station to a proposed gravity sewer on Pigeon Lane; the foul sewer from South Green Road to the proposed Dunmurry Road Pumping Station in parallel with the proposed rising main; the foul sewer from Pigeon Lane to an upgraded Nurney Road Pumping Station, the pumping station at Nurney Road to upgrade existing pumping station; the rising main from the proposed Nurney Road Pumping Station to the existing stormwater balancing tank; the pumping station and stormwater storage tank to be located in the open space between French Furze Road Housing Estate and the link road between the Curragh Road and the motorway; and the rising main from the proposed Curragh Road Pumping Station and stormwater holding tank to the existing Stormwater Balancing Tank.
Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
