2000:0322 - LISSENHALL GREAT (Site 5), Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: LISSENHALL GREAT (Site 5)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 99E0547
Author: Patricia Lynch, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 112 Cianlea, Swords, Co. Dublin and Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 719110m, N 747840m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.467125, -6.206042
This site was identified as a possible earthwork on the first edition OS map. There were no surface indications of the earthwork, and it is possible that its remains were incorporated into the garden walls/boundaries of the nearby estate, Lissenhall House. Four hand-dug cuttings measuring 3m x 3m were sited on the very low, east–west ridge within the road-take.
Cutting 1 was to the east of the slope. Topsoil measured 0.4–0.5m and overlay the natural subsoil. The cutting contained a modern field drain cut into the subsoil but nothing of archaeological significance.
Nothing of significance was found in the other cuttings, Cutting 2, c. 6.5m north-west of Cutting 1, Cutting 3, c. 50m north–west of Cutting 1, and Cutting 4, c. 65m to the west of Cutting 1.
Editor’s note: The summary of this excavation, which was carried out during 1999, arrived too late for publication in the bulletin of that year.