Burial in Crodaun

Situated in a greenfield area directly north of Celbridge town. Site bounded to the West by R405. The majority of the site was located on pastureland, although the SW portion was truncated by a laneway with mature hedgerows. No surface remains visible of enclosure prior to excavation. The site consisted of an earth-cut enclosure [KD011-069----] defined by 2 concentric ditches. It was initially identified through geophysical survey (Nicholls 2018) and test excavation (Coen 2019). Full excavation (Coen 2019) revealed that the enclosure ditch 1.6-2.6m wide by 1.5m deep (max) and would have originally enclosed an area of c.2,965 sq. m. Areas excavated outside of the main enclosure revealed additional features: 2 corn drying kilns, bowl furnace and portion of field system marked out with narrow ditches. One inhumation burial was discovered within main enclosure ditch. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Liam Coen Date of upload: 25 November 2019

A Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. It represents an early form of megalithic funerary architecture significant for understanding prehistoric burial practices in the region.