County: Kildare Site name: 3 DUBLIN ROAD, LEIXLIP
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0416
Author: Franc Myles
Site type: Urban medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 700781m, N 735933m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.363976, -6.485795
This assessment tested a small development site just outside the zone of archaeological potential for the medieval urban settlement of Leixlip, where the nearest discrete RMP is a castle site some 100m east-north-east on Mill Lane (KD011-004006).
The site was a particularly small one, occupying an area of some 27m2 within a small yard and an even smaller area to the rear of a modern office structure. As the new build was single-storey, the foundations were to be dug to a maximum depth of 0.3m; it was proposed, however, to reduce the whole area of the development to this level.
The assessment as undertaken comprised the excavation of a box trial pit within the small yard to the north of the existing single-storey office to a depth of 0.5m. The assessment did not result in the discovery of any significant evidence for the site’s occupation apart from a deposit of garden soil and a layer of demolition rubble above it. The rubble possibly derived from a small structure built on the site in recent years, but it could also have been introduced to build up the ground for the garden.
Archaeology and Built Heritage, 79 Queen Street, Dublin 7
