County: Dublin Site name: SWORDS: 38 Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0329
Author: Claire Mullins
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 718124m, N 746787m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.457889, -6.221278
Testing was carried out on 26 March 2003 on the site of a proposed development to the rear of 38 Main Street, Swords. Three trenches were inserted by machine. In general, they revealed a very disturbed upper stratigraphy associated with the earlier use of the site. This upper layer of disturbance measured, on average, 0.2–0.3m in depth and it overlay an approximately 0.6m-deep layer of river gravel. This lay directly upon boulder clay and the upper levels of bedrock were encountered at 1.2–1.5m below the ground surface. A number of foundation bases were encountered and, in each case, these were associated with internal walls of the demolished building. No archaeological features or artefacts were found during testing.
31 Millford, Athgarvan, Co. Kildare
