2005:403 - CHAPELIZOD: Lucan Road, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: CHAPELIZOD: Lucan Road

Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-028001 Licence number: 05E0919

Author: Franc Myles

Site type: Cultivation ridges

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 710012m, N 734376m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.348154, -6.347701

Three trenches were opened across a development site bounded by the Chapelizod bypass to the south and the Lucan Road to the north. Evidence for post-medieval cultivation was recorded in the form of cultivated soils containing crushed marine shell and minute fragments of 18th-century imported wares from Staffordshire and Bristol.

67 Kickham Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8