County: Dublin Site name: STEPHENSTOWN LOCAL AREA PLAN, CLONARD/FOLKSTOWN GREAT AND STEPHENSTOWN, BALBRIGGAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0303
Author: William O. Frazer, Skeyelarque2@fastmail.fm.
Site type: Testing, prehistoric
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 720300m, N 763589m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.608319, -6.182080
Limited testing, carried out as part of a local area plan (LAP), was undertaken in June 2009 across 23.9ha of greenfields and marginal brownfield lands making up the eastern half of the LAP area, in the townlands of Clonard/Folkstown Great and Stephenstown. Just 0.06ha of test-trenches were opened, on the basis of geophysical survey (D. Harrison 2007, 07R0032), landscape analysis and accessibility.
A single archaeological site was identified: a probable human cremation burial-pit of Bronze Age date that yielded eleven sherds of ^vase-urn’-type pottery from the interfacial soil immediately above, and during hand cleaning of the surface of, the pit. The pit is located on the east part of a broad hilltop possessing both a gentle south-facing slope below and a panoramic view of the coastline from the northnorth-east around to the south-east, out over Balbriggan town.
