County: Kildare Site name: Portgloriam R407 realignment
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0445
Author: Emma Devine, Kilkenny Archaeology, Threecastles, Kilkenny.
Site type: Vernacular house
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 686132m, N 737825m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.383572, -6.705304
Monitoring of the R407 road realignment was conducted on behalf of Kildare county council and following a recommendation in an environmental impact study for the scheme. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted in the monitoring, the bulk of which involved topsoil-stripping on the existing road-verge. One area was excavated, a trapezoidal vernacular building identified as CH9 in the environmental impact study. The dwelling was marked on the 1840 first-edition OS map and had been removed by 1900, as it does not appear on the OS map of that date. Griffith’s valuation of 1850 records the occupier at that time as Michael Flanagan (and the landlord as Thomas W. Browne). The excavation recorded the foundations and the internal layout of the dwelling, as well as an ash pit located outside its rear wall.
