Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Carrickmines Great, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickmines Great
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24974, -6.16850
- SMR number
- DU026-135----
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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
The site was identified in 1998 during topsoil-stripping during the construction of a gas pipeline as a 7.5m (N-S) by 6m spread of burnt stone and charcoal in a loose, silty clay matrix. It had been truncated by a field drain running north-south through the middle of it. A pit was identified below the eastern portion of the site. It measured 0.95m (SE/NW) by 0.7m and was up to 0.42m deep. The pit was full of a deposit of burnt material that could not be distinguished from the burnt stone spread. A flake of struck flint was recovered (O Neill 2000, 37-9, O'Neill 1999).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Uploaded on: 19 April 2017
References
O'Neill, J. 2000 Carrickmines- Bray Gas Pipeline, Carrickmines Great/ Laughanstown/Ticknick/ Rathmichael/ Shankill/ Ballyman. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 37-9. Bray. Wordwell.
Ó Néill J and Breen C. 1999 (unpublished) Carrickmines-Bray Gas Pipeline Preliminary Report Licence Reference 98E0455 for Bord Gáis Éireann, Margaret Gowen and Company Ltd.
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