County: Dublin Site name: Rear of 24 Main Street, Tallaght, Dublin 24
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 16E0288
Author: Ian Russel
Site type: Non Archaeological
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 709090m, N 727727m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.288613, -6.363832
Three test trenches were excavated within the confines of the proposed development. The location of the site within the confines of the Early Christian enclosure of St Maelruan’s, and the fact that sections of the enclosure and human burials had been identified in previous testing over the years, suggested that the site had a high archaeological potential. However this proved not to be the case as two layers of post-medieval clays were exposed in all three trenches suggesting that the site had been cleared in the 19th-20th centuries. The 6” map of 1843 shows the site within the confines of the adjacent school house while the 25” sheet of 1912 shows the site within an open, presumably agricultural, field. No traces of an enclosure ditch were identified and no human burials, either articulated or disarticulated, were exposed.
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