County: Dublin Site name: Laraghcon, Co. Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR DU017-088 Licence number: —
Author: —
Site type: GRAVES OF INDETERMINATE DATE
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 703628m, N 736225m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.366059, -6.442937
In September 1976, during the digging of building foundations, a quantity of unburnt human bone was discovered at Laraghcon, Co. Dublin,82 on the site of Concrete Products Ireland, near Lucan. Three foundation trenches had been dug and human remains were found in each one. As the trenches had been dug by a mechanical excavator, the burials were very disturbed and only a very small quantity of bone remained in situ. It appeared that the rest of the bones had been dumped on a tip-heap before being noticed and were no longer recoverable. The find was reported to the Garda Síochána at Lucan, who informed the NMI. The site was visited by Mary Cahill. The human remains were analysed by Professor C.A. Erskine. The human bone brought to the Museum for examination comprised the remains of two adult skeletons. No artefacts were found in association with the burials.
Human remains
C.A. ERSKINE
The collection comprises twelve pieces of the skeletons of two adult individuals, probably female: fragments of lower quarter of two femora, one half of left tibia, two pieces of fibula, one piece of radius, metacarpal, phalanx, fragment of iliac bone and the halves of two mandibles.
82. Parish of Leixlip, barony of Newcastle. SMR DU017-088——. IGR 303700 236200.
