Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Cloncurry (offaly East By., Cloncurry Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloncurry (offaly East By., Cloncurry Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41534, -6.79185
- SMR number
- KD004-021015-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 2001, pre-development, archaeological test-trenching (Licence no. 01E0264: www.excavations.ie) at the site of a proposed road-widening and junction improvement scheme at the N4-Cloncurry crossroads involved nine trenches being opened, three of which (nos. 2, 8 and 9) produced archaeological material. Trench 2 measured 10m north-east/south-west by 1.7m and contained the foundations of a stone building running east-west and then turning at right angles to run north-south. A parallel outer ditch or foundation trench was also noted. Ten sherds of medieval pottery were also recovered. Trench 8 measured 10m north-west/south-east by 1.6m and produced evidence of a substantial pit, or possible structure, containing twenty sherds of medieval pottery. A medieval hearth and possible medieval boundary were also identified. Trench 9 measured 10m north-south by 1.6m and also produced significant evidence for medieval activity in the form of ditches or boundary features, large burnt spreads, or burnt structures, and layered deposits.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.