2006:706 - SWORDS: Malahide Road, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: SWORDS: Malahide Road

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E1029

Author: Georgina Scally, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 721207m, N 742853m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.421858, -6.176396

Test excavation was carried out at a small site (1104m2) fronting on to Malahide Road close to the centre of Swords village. The site was adjacent to a site at Mount Gamble (now the Pavilions Shopping Centre) previously excavated by Ed O’Donovan, which produced extensive remains of early medieval human burials (Excavations 2002, No. 686, 02E0608). Seven trenches 6–11m long and 1.5m wide were excavated by mechanical digger. No finds or features of any archaeological significance were uncovered.

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