County: Dublin Site name: LUCAN AND PETTYCANNON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 17:21 Licence number: 00E0717
Author: Finola O’Carroll, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 703206m, N 734924m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.354448, -6.449694
Monitoring of earth removal and the digging of small-scale foundations for extensions to a 19th-century house was carried out in fulfilment of planning conditions. The development is located 50m west of an enclosure with a souterrain.
The area around the house consisted of modern, sandy gravel hardcore deposits, which ran to a depth of 0.7–1m, coming onto bedrock in places. Part of the adjacent hillside was also scarped, exposing 0.4m-deep topsoil, overlying 0.2m-deep natural, stony clays, which covered fractured shale bedrock. A modern, stone-filled drain was uncovered near the top of the slope, and sherds of modern creamware and china crockery were uncovered throughout the site. Nothing of archaeological interest was recorded.
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