County: Kildare Site name: ROBERTSTOWN EAST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0098
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 679015m, N 725380m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.272863, -6.815352
Testing was undertaken at the site of a proposed residential development in March 2009. The site is located to the north of the village of Robertstown in a low-lying boggy area drained by streams and drainage ditches leading south to the Grand Canal. There are no known monuments located within or in the environs of the site.
A total of 23 trenches of varying lengths and orientations were excavated within the development area and nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered. However, the testing did reveal layers of peat, extending to depths of up to 1.8m in the northern area of the site, while in the central and southern areas a mixed layer of relatively dry peat and silty clay was uncovered to depths of 1.3m, below which were layers of mixed peat and marly clay to a depth of c. 0.4m. The present planning application is with respect to the southern and central areas of the site and it was suggested, given the extensive nature of the testing, that no further archaeological interventions were required with respect to this phase of the development.
