Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Lusk, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lusk
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52601, -6.16733
- SMR number
- DU008-010006-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Lusk is the best example of an early ecclesiastical enclosure in the county. Both inner c.110m x 100m) and middle enclosures (c.250m x 220m) are reflected in street layout and plot boundaries (Aalen 1992, 87). The present Main Street, N portion of the Dublin Road, Church Road and Church Street respect the former boundaries of the early ecclesiastical enclosure. Part of the outer enclosure was identified through test excavation (Licence 01E0872ext.) and preserved in what is now the open space of Chapel Farm housing estate. Archaeological investigation to accommodate road widening along the Church road also identified part of the outer ecclesiastical enclosure which was radiocarbon dated from the early 5th through the 6th century AD. (O'Connell 2009, 59).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 15 December 2014
References
Moore, E. 2003 Lusk. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 134. Bray. Wordwell.
Aalen, F.H.A. and Whelan, K. (eds) 1992 Dublin City and County: from prehistory to present. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Baker, C. 2001, Report on Archaeological Test Excavation at Lusk Co. Dublin. Licence 01E872EXT. Unpublished report. National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
O'Connell, A. 2009 Excavations at Church Road and the early monastic foundation at Lusk, Co. Dublin. In Baker, C. (ed.) Axes, Warriors and Windmills: Recent Archaeological Investigations in north Fingal. 51-64.
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- Churchunder 1 mi
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