County: Dublin Site name: SUTTON NORTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 15:31 Licence number: 96E0106
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Excavation -miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 726923m, N 738125m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.378043, -6.092345
A site assessment was carried out on land directly south and west of St Fintan’s graveyard prior to granting of planning permission for two houses. The site is separated from the graveyard by a surviving portion of the enclosure bank.
Six test-trenches were dug by machine. Trench 1 was dug east-west, with its east end located at the bottom of the slope of the enclosure bank; the excavation produced evidence for a grey silty layer (700mm–1m deep) with charcoal and cockle-shells at the interface between the topsoil and natural boulder clay. This layer was present along the 18m length of the trench. Nothing was found which would indicate a date. Evidence for the same layer was found in Trench 2, located to the south, but not in the other four. No evidence for an enclosing ditch was found in any of the trenches. There was evidence for the dumping of modern rubble in the field to bring up the ground level.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
