County: Dublin Site name: LUSK: Church Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0161
Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Burial ground
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 721524m, N 754461m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.526049, -6.167133
An assessment was carried out on behalf of Fingal County Council at the junction of Church Road and Treen Lane, Lusk, on 1 March 2005. This was a greenfield site, with Church Road delimiting the site to the south and a number of residential plots to the north. The site contained evidence of at least five inhumations, all supine, extended and orientated east–west, with the head to the east. The remains all lay within 0.3m of existing ground level and were in a poor state of preservation. There was possible evidence of a stone-lined grave laid out roughly north–south. Further investigation of this feature could not be undertaken, due to the presence of overlying remains. The remains would appear to be part of the medieval monastery 150m to the east and lie within the precincts of the original monastery as suggested by the curving route of Church Road and Treen Lane. Following consultation with DoEHLG, excavation within the site ceased and the remains were covered with plastic and reburied. There were occasional occurrences of animal bone, some probably recent, as the site was previously a farm, but some medieval remains were present in the form of a boar’s tusk.
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