2018:732 - DONABATE, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: DONABATE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 18E0414
Author: Faith Bailey, IAC Archaeology
Author/Organisation Address: Unit G1, Network Enterprise Park, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 722547m, N 749573m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.481900, -6.153635
An archaeological excavation was carried out at Donabate, Co. Dublin in advance of a residential development.
The excavation exposed a spread of burnt mound material and associated troughs and pits indicative of probable Bronze Age burnt mound or fulacht fiadh activity. Tentative evidence of an associated shelter or wind break structure was also recorded.
Post-excavation analysis will aim to obtain a date for the activity, which is likely to represent transient settlement dating to the Bronze Age.