What is recorded here

Seventeen centuries of rain erased the walls, but seven post-holes and a linear scar of charcoal still mark the footprint in Kilmacredock Upper. The habitation site in Kilmacredock Upper waited beneath pasture and topsoil until road works exposed its small geometry in 2001. It is not a grand hall or named household, yet it preserves the ordinary fact that people stood there, worked there and left burning traces behind.

In 2001, eighteen potential archaeological sites were found during archaeological monitoring (Licence no. 01E0306) of topsoil-stripping on the Celbridge Interchange. 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 ran 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. The site (Site 6) measured 7m by 12m and was visible as seven possible post-holes and a linear feature at monitoring stage. These were identified by charcoal flecks and burnt stone. It was resolved under licence number 01E0596. (www.excavations.ie) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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