County: Dublin Site name: newcastle lyons
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU020–003, DU021–017 Licence number: 07E0817
Author: Sian Keith, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: Medieval burgage plots
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 699298m, N 728490m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.297398, -6.510397
Three burgage plots were tested to obtain additional information for an archaeological assessment; the test excavations were targeted partly over the results of a geophysical survey. The geophysical survey had only been implemented in one of the three plots tested. Sixteen trenches of varying length were mechanically opened across the plots. Three ditches and two rubble drains were located; all artefactual evidence pointed to post-medieval dates for these features and indicated that they were agricultural in character. Two burgage divisions visible on the ground as hedgerows were tested. These were consistent with medieval plot layouts but they did not yield any datable material to establish their medieval origin.
