County: Kildare Site name: MOONE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0004
Author: Emma Devine
Site type: Adjacent to 19th-century graveyard
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 679499m, N 692021m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.973042, -6.816381
An assessment to include test excavations was commissioned by Kildare County Council as a component of a Part VIII planning application for an extension to the cemetery of the Blessed Trinity RC Church (built c. 1830), Moone. The nearest recorded monuments—KD038-005, standing stone, and KD038-057, barrow—were 650m south-east of the proposed development area. A kilometre to the west was the Columban monastery and medieval borough of Moone, comprising KD036-031 (ecclesiastical remains), KD036-032 (tower-house), KD036-033 (enclosure site) and KD036-043 (holy well site). Four test trenches were dug in the field to the east of the graveyard and nothing of archaeological interest was noted.
Kilkenny Archaeology, Threecastles, Kilkenny
