County: Dublin Site name: DARCYTOWN/GLEBE SOUTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0043
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Company Ltd, Consultant Archaeologists
Site type: Pit, Kiln - corn-drying and Hearth
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 719600m, N 760887m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.584206, -6.193686
Monitoring was carried out during subsurface works on a housing development at Lusk Road, Balrothery, Co. Dublin, mainly during May–June 2004. The 6.5ha site, comprising two fields divided by a road, was in the townlands of Glebe South and Darcystown. The site was in an area of high archaeological potential, being close to the multi-ditched enclosure of Rosepark, Balrothery (Excavations 2001, No. 334, 99E0155 ext.), with a number of other sites of archaeological interest in the vicinity. During monitoring, a number of sites and features came to light, including three prehistoric ring-ditches and a number of early medieval inhumation burials. Two of the ring-ditches and the inhumations, along with a number of other features, were later excavated by Frank Ryan (No. 496, Excavations 2004, 04E0680). One of the ring-ditches together with a seemingly associated group of pits were excavated by the writer (No. 498, Excavations 2004, 04E0741).
A number of other features were found scattered throughout the site, particularly concentrated in the Darcytown side. These were excavated under this monitoring licence and comprised four pits, nine cereal-drying kilns and five hearths.
13 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
