County: Kildare Site name: PIPERS HILL, KILLASHEE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD024–003 Licence number: 07E1096
Author: Michael Tierney, The Archaeology Company Ltd, Hamilton House, Emmet Street, Birr, Co. Offaly.
Site type: Prehistoric and medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 688731m, N 716200m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.188847, -6.672282
Monitoring was carried out over seven days intermittently from autumn 2007 to spring 2008 at a development site in Pipers Hill, Killashee, Naas, Co. Kildare (Excavations 2008, No. 666). This is a large-scale site, where an educational campus, 18-hole golf-course and clubhouse, office units and a nursing home are being constructed. KD024–003, an ecclesiastical complex consisting of a church and graveyard, a round tower, a souterrain and a holy well, lies partially within the site boundary and partially just beyond the south-west boundary.
Following a break in site works, monitoring recommenced on an intermittent basis from April 2009. Since then, several archaeological features have been uncovered, including fulacht fiadh material and various cut features of possible late prehistoric date and human remains of probable medieval date, associated with the graveyard (KD024–003). Archaeological monitoring is ongoing at the site and a full report and mitigation strategy is pending.
