County: Dublin Site name: GLASNEVIN: Old Finglas Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1001
Author: Neil O’Flanagan
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 713922m, N 737816m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.378235, -6.287753
Two areas were the subject of excavation following the exposure of possible archaeological features during the course of test-trenching (see Excavations 2001, No. 423). One was thought to contain the remains of an 18th-century farmhouse and haggard depicted in a survey of the field in 1799 for its owner, George Putland. The remains were subsequently shown to be a more recent animal burial.
The other area exposed during the course of testing contained the remains of a cooking area with stake-holes, food remains and medieval pottery. A small fragment of amber was recovered during the course of the excavation. There were no other features in the vicinity and it is thought likely that the cooking area formed part of a single random event in the late medieval period.
39 West Park Drive, Ballygall, Dublin 11
