County: Kildare Site name: BRIDGE STREET, RATHANGAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD017–011 Licence number: 06E0714
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins and Associates, 7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 667257m, N 719336m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.220179, -6.992879
The grant of planning for the construction of a mixed-use development at Bridge Street, Rathangan, required that the site be subjected to testing. The site is located on the northern bank of the Slate River and within the zone of archaeological potential established for Rathangan. There are no previously identified monuments located within, or in the general environs of, the site and the adjacent street is believed to have been laid out in the later medieval period.
Four trenches were excavated by machine fitted with a toothless ditching/grading bucket. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered during the course of testing.
