Kildare
1999:380
KILRATHMURRAY, ENFIELD
Non-antiquity-animal pen?
2654 2406
99E0286
The feature identified during a programme of monitoring (see No. 379 above) was at the base of the slope of a gravel ridge and was open to the south only. It appeared as a reverse L-shape, measuring 6.6m north-south by 4.8m. It ranged in width from 0.7m to 1.5m. Set into a matrix of grey sand, the feature comprised three trenches with fills of sandy clay varying from orange to brown and with an average depth of 0.25m. Finds were limited to a sherd of brownware and a piece of clay pipe stem. Given its location, the nature of associated finds and the subsequent agricultural usage of the land, the feature is best defined as an open animal pen or shelter and assigned to the early/mid-19th century.
Christine Baker and Rónán Swan, Arch-Tech Ltd, 32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2.

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