County: Dublin Site name: 2 KINCORA ROAD, CLONTARF
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1246
Author: Franc Myles, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 719524m, N 736277m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.363172, -6.204184
The site was located to the north-east of Clontarf village uphill from the shoreline, within a residential area developed in the 1940s. It is close to several archaeological sites but did not impact directly on their areas of constraint.
Two Bronze Age bronze axeheads were found at Clontarf (Stout and Stout 1992, 9–10), but there are no further indications of prehistoric settlement in the area.
The site of the Battle of Clontarf seems to have extended from Summerhill towards Fairview and parts of Clontarf. There was, however, no evidence recorded for anything pre-dating the construction of the bungalow that occupied the development site.
Reference
Stout, G. and Stout, M. 1992 Patterns in the past: County Dublin 5000 BC–1000 AD. In F.H.A. Aalen and K. Whelan (eds), Dublin city and county: from prehistory to present. Dublin.
