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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Lusk, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Lusk, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 Unpublished report.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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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