County: Kildare Site name: Church Street, Kilcock
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 24E0032
Author: Chris Coffey and Deanna Lee
Site type: Possible post-medieval partial structural remains
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 688431m, N 739775m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.400706, -6.670217
Archaeological Testing was carried out over the course of two days, in January 2024, at Church Street, Kilcock, County Kildare, using a mechanical excavator fitted with a flat, grading bucket. A total of nine trenches were mechanically investigated across the test area which measured 246.5 linear metres in total. Testing revealed two areas of archaeological potential (AA1 and AA2). These comprise the truncated remains of an in-filled stone-built chamber with floor surface (AA1) in the north-east corner of the site, and an area of fire-reddened clay (AA2) of possibly industrial nature in the centre of site. No dating evidence was recovered from any of the features but they are likely of post medieval/early modern provenance. The remainder of the site contained multiple post-medieval and modern field drains of varying orientations and construction. These included narrow vertical stone-filled drains and wide shallow silt-filled drains.
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