County: Dublin Site name: Bay 3
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E003919
Author: Robert O’Hara, Archaeological Consultancy Services Limited, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Multi-period
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 709058m, N 743029m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.426085, -6.359032
A number of multi-period features spread over three cuttings were excavated at Bay 3, Co. Dublin, ahead of the Tyrrellstown to N2 Cherryhound Interchange link road.
An early medieval pit (ad 660–780) and gully was potentially associated with a second pit. Two linear ditches were associated with a spread of charcoal-flecked clay. Each feature contained large quantities of 13th- and 14th-century locally made pottery. The ditches may have been associated with a forerunner of a possible tower-house that may have been located due east of the site at the former location of Bay House (DU014–089), the location of which is marked on the 17th-century Down Survey map.
