County: Kildare Site name: KILDARE: Cleamore Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD022–029 Licence number: C190; E2933
Author: Fran Wilkinson, Tempus Archaeology
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 672735m, N 712361m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.156777, -6.912463
The site is located on the eastern side of Cleamore Road at the rear of a modern terraced house. Three trenches were excavated in advance of a mixed-use development. The trenches varied from 13m to 34m in maximum length (east–west). A substantial double ditch feature, oriented north–south, was identified running along the conjectured line of the medieval defences of the town. The largest (i.e. western) ditch measured 4m maximum wide and was over 2.5m in depth. About 0.3m to the east of this was a second ditch, which measured 1.7m in maximum width.
Cregg, Craughwell, Co. Galway
