County: Dublin Site name: LUCAN: The Orchard, Old Leixlip Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0149
Author: Eoghan Moore for Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 702964m, N 735015m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.355312, -6.453297
An archaeological assessment was carried out on the site of proposed development (a block of apartments) at 'The Orchard', Old Leixlip Road, Lucan, Co. Dublin. Part of the site was within the zone of archaeological potential for Lucan, as identified by the Urban Archaeological Survey.
Three trial-trenches were opened by mechanical excavator on 23 March 1998. Each was excavated to natural subsoil.
Trench 1 was 43m long and 0.6m wide on a south-west/north-east axis. It was c. 0.4–0.8m deep and was made up of redeposited topsoil and three horizons of stone deposits, which formed the foundations of a gravel pathway. No archaeological remains were found.
Trench 2 was 35m long and 0.6m wide on a south-east/north-west axis. It was c. 1m deep and was made up a homogeneous layer of redeposited topsoil. No archaeological remains were uncovered.
Trench 3 was 21m long and 0.6m wide on a south-west/north-east axis. It was c. 0.9–1m deep and was made up of two layers of gravel, a layer of redeposited topsoil and a layer of natural clay intermixed with small to medium-sized stones. No archaeological remains were uncovered.
This assessment did not uncover any archaeological remains on the site of proposed development.
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