County: Dublin Site name: INTERCONNECTOR GAS PIPELINE, Ballough, Loughshinney
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 93E0079
Author: Margaret Gowen
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 722678m, N 754766m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.528513, -6.149631
Monitoring of topsoil removal during the construction phase of the cross-country portion of this gas pipeline project (6km long) revealed several features in the townland of Raheny to the east of Lusk village. The most extensive of these, a series of ditched features with ephemeral pockets of habitation soils, was subsequently excavated by Beth Cassidy (A.D.S.) and produced evidence of activity dating from the Bronze Age (see No. 99, Exacavations 1993). Monitoring some 600m–1km further to the east of this site revealed the remains of an enigmatic group of pit and gully features and a physically unrelated fulacht fiadh. It is tempting to regard the three sites as evidence for a relatively wide-ranging, if sparse, Bronze Age presence in the area.
Rath House, Ferndale Rd., Rathmichael, Co. Dublin
