What is recorded here

Half a mile from the church and graveyard, a ploughed field in County Kildare keeps spitting out flint and chert tools. David Brennan has bent over that soil for seasons, filling his pockets with knives, scrapers and broken arrowheads until hundreds left for the National Museum of Ireland. In 2009 a Neolithic stone axe appeared sixty metres downslope from a hidden circular enclosure, proving the ground had been worked from the Mesolithic through later prehistoric periods. The field is not empty; it is a drawer pulled open by every storm and every pass of the plough.

Situated on high ground, in tillage field immediately W and S of church (KD023-008----) and graveyard (KD023-008001-). Inspection of the field by David Brennan over several seasons has retrieved hundreds of flint and chert artefacts lying on the surface of the plough soil. All the lithic artefacts are now with the National Museum of Ireland. In 2009, a Neolithic stone axe (possibly Dolerite) was also found on the surface of the plough soil, approximately 60 metres downslope of the western edge of the newly discovered sub-circular shaped enclosure (KD023-128----). The late Professor Peter Woodman visited the site and recorded the scatter as a probable Early Mesolithic site (Woodman 2015, ). However, examination of the complete lithic assemblage indicates that there was activity present at this site from the Mesolithic right through to later prehistoric periods. See attached plan showing location of lithic scatter Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by David Brennan Date of upload: 04 December 2018

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