1996:065 - BALLYOGAN, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: BALLYOGAN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0265

Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, for Project Director Valerie J. Keeley

Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 721424m, N 724228m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.254506, -6.180265

This was one of two sites in adjoining townlands which were investigated in advance of the construction of the South-eastern Motorway. It initially appeared as an uncultivated parch in a field. Some stone was present. There was also a curved depression which appeared to be part of a fosse. The Down Survey shows a house (SMR 26:79) in this area, and it was thought that this may have been the site.

Three cuttings were excavated, two in a cruciform arrangement across the ditch, and one across the 'fosse'. No traces of any ancient activity were found. A natural rock outcrop was present, which had evidently been used as a dump in the last twenty years. There were no pre-twentieth-century finds.

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