Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Portraine Demesne, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portraine Demesne
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.48538, -6.11938
- SMR number
- DU012-095003-
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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
This monument was subject to geophysical survey (Licence no. 08R029) and test excavation (Licence no. 10E0121) in advance of the Portrane, Donabate and Lusk Waste Water Treatment scheme. Located 20m N of prehistoric habitation (DU012-095001-) this monument consisted of domestic settlement characterised by a series of pits. Radiocarbon analysis from one of the pits returned a Neolithic date (2908-2638 BC cal.) (McQuade 2011, 22).
Compiled by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 5 February 2015
References
McQuade, M. 2011 Final report on archaeological monitoring and excavation, Portrane, Donabate and Lusk Waste Water Treatment Scheme (Licence no. 10E0121). Unpublished report. National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.