County: Dublin Site name: COURTLOUGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 95E0250
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen
Site type: Ring-ditch
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 718525m, N 758621m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.564092, -6.210770
The site was identified on an aerial photograph as a cropmark. It lay on the line of a proposed slip-road joining the Balbriggan bypass, so a small investigative excavation was carried out. The site lay on slightly rising ground beside a stream. It had originally been marshy ground until drainage work was carried out earlier in the present century.
Excavation revealed patches of burnt soil and ash spread over the topsoil, which was a hard grey clay. The burnt material was quite patchy, and very thin in places, but was thicker in one area, and centred round a slight bowl-shaped hollow. It was overlain by approximately 0.3m of topsoil. No artefacts were found.
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