County: Dublin Site name: LUSK: Racecourse Common
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0421
Author: Susan McCabe, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 721783m, N 753752m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.519613, -6.163505
Testing was undertaken to investigate a circular anomaly identified from aerial photographic analysis. The site was east of the medieval town of Lusk, SMR 8:10, lying outside the area of archaeological potential as noted in the Urban Archaeological Survey. The anomaly lay in the path of the proposed Lusk Relief Road.
Two intersecting and perpendicular trenches were excavated across the site of the possible feature, each 30m long, 2m wide and c. 0.4m deep.
No evidence of a feature that could represent the anomaly visible on the aerial photograph was found, and no additional features of archaeological significance were noted.
32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
