County: Dublin Site name: CARRICKMINES AND JAMESTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0119
Author: Niall Brady
Site type: Pit, Fulacht fia and Linear earthwork
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 721274m, N 724318m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.255349, -6.182477
Topsoil-stripping associated with a new foul sewer outfall in the Ballyogan Tiphead area of County Dublin between 20 April and 8 June 1998 uncovered two new archaeological features and occasioned an assessment of the Pale Ditch.
The first feature lay in Carrickmines townland and comprised two small pits, one of which was associated with burnt bone (O21352429). The second feature, in the adjacent townland of Jamestown, was a fulacht fiadh (O21192400). Both sites were excavated. A sample of timber from the fulacht fiadh returned a dendrochronological date of 2852 BC±9.
A test-trench was opened across the Pale Ditch in advance of the sewer pipe that crosses it in Jamestown (O20502433). The boundary lay undisturbed below a modern laneway. It was subsequently fully excavated by Martin Reid under the same licence (see No. 204, Excavations 1998).
