County: Dublin Site name: WOODPARK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1157
Author: Patricia Lynch, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 718476m, N 755846m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.539183, -6.212560
A fulacht fiadh with associated burnt-mound material was identified during the monitoring of drainage trenches carried out on the second contract of the Airport–Balbriggan Bypass. On excavation, the site was identified as drainage channels with deposits of iron pan. The site was deemed to be of no archaeological significance.
Editor’s note: Though carried out in 2001, this excavation was not reported on in time for inclusion in the bulletin of that year.
27 Hilltown Way, Swords, Co. Dublin
