County: Kildare Site name: Athgarven Road, Newbridge
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E504 EXT.
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Site type: Prehistoric settlement
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 680993m, N 713789m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.168415, -6.788659
Test-excavations were conducted for Kildare county council in advance of a proposed extension to St Conleth’s graveyard, Newbridge. Test-excavations revealed a probable prehistoric settlement occupying an area of c. 95m x 45m at the top of a low hill overlooking a bend in the river Liffey to the south of Newbridge and 2km east of the major concentration of later prehistoric funerary monuments on the Curragh. A total of 30 archaeological/potential archaeological features, including a rectilinear structure (Structure A), a ring-ditch/possible roundhouse (Structure B), a post-hole structure (Structure? C), twelve pits and twelve linear gullies. The only find recovered was a fragment of coarse ware pottery of possible Bronze Age date. The site was subsequently excavated by Faith Bailey (above No. 327).
Kilkenny Archaeology, 12 Parliament Street, Kilkenny
