2008:669 - Buckley House, Parsons Street, Maynooth, Kildare

A testing programme was carried out at Buckley House, Parson Street, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. A previous testing programme (licence 01E0045) had been carried out at the site in 2001 by Stephen Johnston.
The site encompasses the late 18th- or early 19th-century Buckley House, which is in a dilapidated state, a grassed yard with outbuildings, a front garden of c. 25m north–south by c. 10m, a rear garden of c. 45m north–south by c. 35m and two small plots fronting on to Leinster Street. Thirteen trenches were inserted across the development site. Forty-five features of potential archaeological significance were identified representing medieval and post-medieval activity. The medieval features represented the remains of tenant plots and comprised linear ditches, several shallow linear features, spreads, several metalled surfaces, a stone-lined pit with associated spreads, an area of burning and a linear stone arrangement. These features were largely confined to the rear garden and the plots flanking Leinster Street. Post-medieval activity was identified throughout the development but with a particular concentration in the rear yard; it comprised a possible kiln in the west of the site and the foundation of the 19th-century garden wall with associated cobbled surface and metalled surface in the yard.