Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Oldconnaught, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldconnaught
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tooles Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.21589, -6.12471
- SMR number
- DU026-067----
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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 burial was located on gently undulating ground which rises to a low ridge at the site. It comprises a slightly raised area, covered in trees. During quarrying in the area in the nineteenth century several skeletons and finds of bronze fibulae were uncovered here (Wakeman 1894). In 1989 archaeological excavations were carried out at the site prior to the construction of the Shankill/Bray By-Pass. The only feature uncovered was a ditch containing a piece of iron and a fragment of clay pipe which is likely to be post medieval in date (https://www.excavations.ie/report/1989/Dublin/0000861/).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.