2008:682 - Rathbride, Kildare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kildare Site name: Rathbride

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0470

Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc Na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 674225m, N 715335m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.183298, -6.889489

Testing was undertaken at the site of a proposed equine-related development at Rathbride, the Curragh. The western site boundary forms part of the zone of archaeological potential established for the Curragh Plains (KD022–071). A total of 26 test-trenches were excavated and nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered.