What is recorded here

Indicated is a marker-free oval graveyard in Blanchardstown Millennium Park, linked to a white chapel that vanished around 1490. Human bones were once exposed there, and ditched enclosures still shadow the ground beneath the park. People may have buried their dead beside that chapel, then forgotten the names while the earth kept them.

A raised oval area (dims. L 50m E-W, Wth.30m) formerly in the grounds of Coolmine House, now Blanchardstown Millennium Park. According to Healy there were human bones exposed on the site (1974, 21). There are no grave markers. Associated with the 'white chapel' which went out of existence about 1490 (Ronan 1940, 188 (DU013-019001-). The site was subject to geophysical survey (Licence no. 09R195) in advance of the proposed Metro West. Remains of enclosure ditches and possible pit type features associated with the Coolmine Church (DU013-019001-) and graveyard (DU013-019002-) were identified. A sub-circular enclosure (c.50m diam. NS) and further ditch remains extending to the south and east were associated with possible burnt/fired features which may indicate hearths or kilns (Nicholls 2009, 14). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 20 January 2015

A Neolithic passage tomb; 4th to 3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in its association with early burial practices and the presence of human remains, indicating ritual or funerary use in the Neolithic period.

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