County: Dublin Site name: LAUGHAUNSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0261
Author: Christine Grant
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 722919m, N 723295m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.245783, -6.158238
Test excavation was carried out in advance of road-building for the Southern Cross Motorway. Several potential archaeological features were investigated. A mixture of prehistoric and medieval material was recovered from the site. Several features were identified, but few had artefacts directly associated. Among the material recovered were sherds of Bronze Age pottery and a miniature adze of porcellanite. These were associated with a stone field boundary. Also recovered were pieces of worked flint, fragments of medieval pottery and copper fragments. A full excavation of the site will be undertaken.
Editor’s note: Although this excavation took place during 1998, the report was only recently received.
Crossard, Kilnaboy, Co. Clare
