Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Neolithic
Flemingtown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Flemingtown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61190, -6.21278
- SMR number
- DU001-014----
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Pre-development investigations in 2005 identified evidence dating from the Neolithic through to the early medieval period. The earliest activity at the site dates from the Neolithic. It comprises a Neolithic house, oriented roughly N-S (L 10m, Wth 6m). The footprint of the building was wholly defined by a slot trench, suggesting that the structure was plank built with evidence for a doorway on the W side. A substantial assemblage of early Neolithic pottery and struck flint were retrieved from the slot trench. This produced a radiocarbon date of 3394-3387 cal. BC (Bolger, T.2009, 25-26).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 7 October 2014
References
Bolger, T. 2009 Organising the Landscape: Archaeological Excavations at Flemington, Balbriggan. In Baker, C. (ed.) Axes, Warriors and Windmills: Recent archaeological discoveries in North Fingal, 25-35. Fingal County Council.
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