County: Kildare Site name: Collaghknock Glebe, Melittia Road, Kildare
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 04E0771
Author: Emer Dennehy, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: Burial site?
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 672925m, N 712604m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.158934, -6.909568
Monitoring of all ground-disturbance activities was undertaken at this site due to the incorporation of KD022–037. The site had been excavated in 1966. This burial was described as an extended inhumation with no grave goods or obvious structural features (e.g. a cist) and is presumed to have been of prehistoric date. The site of this burial is not precisely located; descriptive accounts indicate that it was cut into the esker ridge on the east of the site, but the RMP maps illustrate a western location for the burial. A geophysical survey (04R057) and a programme of archaeological testing was undertaken by Teresa Bolger in 2004 (Excavations 2004, No. 816). No features or stratigraphy of an archaeological nature was identified at this time, nor was the original location of the RMP burial noted.
Monitoring of site development works took place over a two-week period commencing November 2006. Topsoil was removed from all areas of the site except for a south-east portion of the development site’s green area, measuring 100m by 60m. No archaeological stratigraphy was identified, but a possible tuning pin for a musical instrument was identified in the south-west of the site and has been submitted for conservation.
