County: Dublin Site name: LUSK: Post Office Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0116
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 722039m, N 753435m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.516707, -6.159771
Archaeological assessment took place at a proposed residential development at Post Office Road, Lusk, Co. Dublin. The site was thought to be within the enclosure of an early monastery founded by St MacCuillinn in the 5th century. Six trenches were excavated along the proposed foundations and bio-cycle unit. Trenches were dug to 1–1.35m deep and revealed sod, ploughsoil and boulder clay.
Trench One revealed a black layer at a depth of 0.9m. This layer contained shell, burnt animal bone and fragments of iron slag but no datable artefacts. It was 0.2m thick and overlay boulder clay. Proposed house foundations will not extend beyond 0.75m below the surface and will not truncate archaeological deposits.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
