County: Dublin Site name: OLD VICARAGE, Swords
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 95E0035
Author: Helen Kehoe for Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 715626m, N 745223m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.444399, -6.259454
An archaeological assessment was carried out on a site at the rear of the Old Vicarage, Swords, to fulfil a condition of the planning permission for the scheme. The site lies close to a group of ecclesiastical buildings to the north-west of the present Church of Ireland church, which was built in 1818 on the site of an earlier foundation.
Four test-trenches and two test-pits were opened on 8 and 16 February 1995 on a north-east/south-west axis across the site. The stratigraphy observed during excavation of the trenches suggests a consistent soil profile throughout the site. There were no indications of archaeological features or soils and there were no archaeological inclusions in any of the trenches opened.
The site lies at a distance from the ecclesiastical remains and therefore outside the line of any enclosure that may have surrounded them. There were no further archaeological reasons to impede development on the site.
Editor’s note: Although excavated in 1995, this report did not arrive on time for inclusion in the bulletin of that year.
Rath House, Ferndale Rd. Rathmichael, Co. Dublin
