County: Kildare Site name: Clongowes Wood College, Castlebrown or Clongowes
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD014-0080002 Licence number: 22E0371
Author: John Channing
Site type: Pale Ditch (site of)
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 687588m, N 729477m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.308324, -6.685739
Archaeological testing on or close to the presumed line of the Pale Ditch earthwork, at Castlebrown or Clongowes townland, was conducted in advance of a planning application. Three test trenches revealed the presence of a shallow field boundary running parallel to and possibly associated with a line of trees, the line of which is depicted on the 25-inch, OS map of 1900. Modern rubbish deposits were encountered to the east of the presumed line of the earthwork at the south of the proposed development.
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