What is recorded here

Kilmacredock Upper held a small habitation site measuring nine by five metres, marked by three pits and one trench. Charcoal, burnt bone, a flint chunk and two prehistoric pottery fragments emerged before modern road works buried the place again. The pits suggest people lived there long enough to break tools, cook food and leave behind the ordinary debris of daily life.

Eighteen potential archaeological sites were found during monitoring of topsoil-stripping on the Celbridge Interchange, from April to December 2001 (Licence no. 01E0306). The scheme was approximately 4km in length and ran from Celbridge to Leixlip through gently undulating land with a mixture of arable, pasture and woodland. The southern part of the scheme runs through an area heavily influenced by 18th-century landscape design, with avenues, woodland and tree-lined field boundaries centred on the early 18th-century house at Castletown. This site (Site 8) measured 9m by 5m. At the monitoring stage it was visible as three pits and one trench or oval pit. Some charcoal and burnt bone were visible on the surface of the fills. A chunk of flint and two pieces of prehistoric pottery were also found. It was resolved under licence number 01E0596 ext. (www.excavations.ie) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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