County: Kildare Site name: CRADDOCKSTOWN NORTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: Unlicensed
Author: Dermot Nelis, 36 Fingal Street, Dublin 8.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 675759m, N 703192m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.073967, -6.869417
A haul road and a storage area were topsoil-stripped in advance of the construction of an area for the storage of building materials at Craddockstown North, Naas. The haul road measured c. 255m long north-west/south-east by 4m wide and the storage area measured c. 95m north–south by 35m. Monitoring revealed topsoil sealing subsoil across all areas of land-take. Natural was only occasionally revealed as the majority of the topsoil-stripping stopped in the subsoil layer as the development did not require excavation to the level of geologically deposited strata. No archaeological features or artefacts were revealed in any areas of land-take during monitoring.
