County: Kildare Site name: RATHCOFFEY NORTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0147
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 688102m, N 722671m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.247097, -6.679901
Testing was undertaken of proposed development lands at Rathcoffey North with respect to an application to construct houses on the site. A total of 48 trenches were excavated by machine fitted with a toothless ditching bucket. No features or deposits of archaeological interest were uncovered, although a number of modern pottery sherds and fragments of clay-pipe stems were found during the course of the works. In addition, a fragment of worked flint, possibly a fragmented arrowhead or knife tip, was recovered from the surface of a ploughed field.
