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Burial

Lusk, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, 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
Coordinates
53.52655, -6.16954
SMR number
DU008-097001-

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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

This monument was first identified during an assessment (Licence no. 05E0161) of a greenfield site delimited by Church road to the S and Treen Lane to the W. At least five inhumations, all supine, extended and orientated E–W, with the head to the east were identified (Clarke 2005). Excavation was undertaken (Licence no. C010) in advance of road-widening. A 5m long portion of the ecclesiastical enclosure (DU008-010006-) was excavated and a ditch fill date of 42-600 AD recovered. External to the ditch eight E-W supine burials were excavated including a double burial containing two adult males. Both had been beheaded and an iron spearhead was protruding from the torso of one. The burial was dated to 410-570 AD (O’Connell 2009, 54).

Compiled by: Christine Baker

Date of upload: 5 February 2015

References

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.

Clarke, L. 2005 Archaeological Assessmnet, Lusk, Co. Dublin. Licence no. 05E0161. Unpublished report. National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Nearby in the register

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

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