County: Meath Site name: John Street/Castle Street, Kells
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0800
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Co. Ltd, 11 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 674251m, N 775829m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.726835, -6.874833
Monitoring of trenches took place along John Street/Castle Street in Kells from 11 September to 11 October 2006. These trenches were for the laying of ducts for cable/internet access and improvements to the water system of the town.
Castle Street forms the part of the curvilinear line that may have marked the outer enclosure of the 9th-century town of Kells. John Street is one of the main streets extending from the ‘enclosure’ and so may also originally have related to it, although it has been suggested by Bradley (1983, 72) that this street may be an Anglo-Norman addition.
Monitoring yielded no archaeological finds or features. However, the limited depth and scope of the excavations ruled out any real chance of encountering significant archaeology.
Reference
Bradley, J. 1983 The Urban Survey, Part II, Co. Meath. Unpublished. Dublin.
