County: Kildare Site name: OLD KILCULLEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD028–049 Licence number: 07E1016
Author: Dave Bayley, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120b Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 682704m, N 707187m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.108834, -6.764764
Testing was carried out in March 2009 along a section of proposed pipeline that will form part of the Kildare Water Strategy. The pipeline route was tested for 140m as it passes through the townland of Old Kilcullen, located within the archaeological constraint for a deserted medieval settlement and ecclesiastic remains. The pipeline runs along the N78 before turning east along a regional road, crossing over to pass through a greenfield area immediately north of a road. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded during the testing programme. The current road surface and foundation layers sealed an older tarmac surface and the foundation layers for this earlier road surface lay directly on natural subsoil.
