County: Dublin Site name: CARRICKMINES GREAT/GLENAMUCK NORTH/GLENAMUCK SOUTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0756
Author: Teresa Bolger, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 722414m, N 724848m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.259850, -6.165205
Monitoring was carried out in conjunction with the construction programme for the Glenamuck–Kiltiernan main drainage scheme. A possible archaeological site was identified at the western edge of the wayleave within the townland of Carrickmines Great. The site was characterised by a spread of dark, charcoal-stained gravelly clays with frequent heat-affected stones; the deposits associated with the site clearly extended into the baulk along the western limit of the wayleave. Therefore the features identified represent only part of the site. Some of the deposits present appeared to be quite shallow, though there was at least one possible ditch. No finds or artefacts were retrieved.
The brief assessment of the site indicated that it may be the remains of a burnt mound or fulacht fiadh. Natural geological deposits in the area immediately adjacent to the site were characterised by sticky clays and marl, suggesting that this area had been waterlogged or wetland in the past. A small stream forms the western boundary of the field within which the site is located. As the pipeline corridor did not intersect with the site, it was fenced off from the wayleave and preserved in situ. No further archaeological features or deposits were identified in any other section of the pipeline route.
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