County: Dublin Site name: ROBSWALLS (Site 1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0385
Author: John Ó Néill, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 724024m, N 745143m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.441772, -6.133137
Monitoring of topsoil removal at Robswalls in January and February 2002 revealed the heavily ploughed traces of a shell midden. Excavation of the midden suggested minimum original dimensions of 6m by 2m. Ploughing had largely dispersed crushed shell through the topsoil over quite a wide area, with a maximum depth of 90mm of midden material surviving in situ. A small number of sherds of local medieval pottery were recovered from the midden.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
