Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Bronze Age
Clonard Or Folkstown Great, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonard Or Folkstown Great
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60373, -6.21986
- SMR number
- DU004-046----
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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
Excavations in 2002 revealed remnants of a circular structure (diam.7m) with a porch -like entrance in the south-east. It was defined by a double ring of seven postholes. The entrance consisted of an arrangement of four large posts, two internal and two external. Finds from the house include a small, polished porcellanite axehead, five flint waste flakes and sherds of Middle Bronze age pottery (Byrne, 2003, 136).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 15 November 2014
References
Grogan, E., O'Donnell, L. and Johnston, P. 2007 The Bronze Age landscapes of the pipeline to the West. Bray. Wordwell.
Byrne, M.E. 2006 Castlefarm Human Remains. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 236 (No. 892). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.