County: Dublin Site name: BELLINSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0744
Author: Patricia Lynch, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Barrow - unclassified
Period/Dating: Iron Age (800 BC-AD 339)
ITM: E 719175m, N 750461m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.490657, -6.204069
An Iron Age ring-barrow was identified during monitoring of trial-pits, topsoil-stripping and drainage trenches carried out on the second contract of the Airport–Balbriggan Bypass. The site consisted of a circular ring-barrow, with an entrance at the northern and western part of the ring. A deer antler was found directly opposite the western causeway/entrance. A small deposit of cremated human bone was found within the ditch, also on the eastern side of the feature. The north-eastern side of the ring-ditch was cut through by five inhumations oriented east–west. Beside these inhumations were four others, oriented north-east/south-west.
27 Hilltown Way, Swords, Co. Dublin
