County: Dublin Site name: LUSK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0871
Author: Susan McCabe, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: Hearth, Cremation pit and Ring-ditch
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 721606m, N 754494m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.526326, -6.165884
Monitoring of Phases 2 and 3 of a large-scale residential development took place south of the medieval town of Lusk (SMR 8:10) and 150m from the boundary of the zone of archaeological potential as outlined in the Urban Archaeological Survey. The area stripped included a roadway and a field adjacent to the Dublin Road, directly south of the town.
Several features of archaeological significance were identified in two zones within the areas stripped. Two small, subcircular features, one of which had been burnt in situ and both of which contained burnt material, were identified adjacent to the Dublin Road at the entrance to the site. In addition, a complex of features was identified to the west of the site, adjacent to a north–south-oriented field boundary. This included a possible ring-ditch, with several associated deposits of burnt material in subcircular cut pits, and two linear features with rounded terminals, both oriented south-west/north-east.
Further details of these features are given in the excavation summary for the site (see Nos 626 and 627, Excavations 2002).
32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
