County: Dublin Site name: LAUGHANSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0880 ext.
Author: Matthew Seaver, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 722816m, N 723054m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.243643, -6.159872
An area of 16,157m2 was monitored in Site 28 on the South-Eastern Motorway. It was one possible location of a brief military encampment by the retreating Jacobite army. The area had previously been metal-detected under licence 00R008, tested by Patricia Lynch, and an area of 45m by 25m was excavated by Sylvia Desmond but revealed no features that could be related to military occupation. The spoil was metal-detected under licence 02R067. No artefacts of provable military origin were found. A spread of burnt material was revealed during monitoring in the north-western corner of the site and was subsequently excavated under licence 02E1133 (No. 619, Excavations 2002). This revealed a significant Bronze Age complex.
Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
