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.
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.
112 Cianlea, Swords, Co. Dublin and Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
