County: Kildare Site name: Marsville House, Kill West, Kill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD019-008, KD019-002 Licence number: 19E0660
Author: Red Tobin (for Courtney Deery Heritage Consultants)
Site type: Landscaped garden site
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 693948m, N 722969m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.248764, -6.592261
The licence was granted to carry out a test trench excavation as part of an archaeological assessment. 8 trenches were excavated. Two trenches were allocated to the eastern section of the site which falls securely within the zone of archaeological potential for the village of Kill (KD019-008). These trenches were designed to pick up any buried features extending from the likely site of the ecclesiastical enclosure (KD019-002).
6 trenches were allocated to the western portion of the site. The western part of the site appears quite level, but the central area has clearly been subjected to extensive infilling on at least two separate occasions. The test trenches showed that the original site had a natural high point in the south with the land sloping to the north west and north.
In general, the results of the test excavation defined the 19th-century construction of Marsville House and its landscaping. No archaeology was found.
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