What is recorded here
Kilgobbin in County Dublin held a settlement so old its charcoal dates to 3670 BC, long before written history or familiar Irish borders. Post-holes and wall slots marked buildings where people lived, worked and likely watched the sky. Pottery and worked flints suggest craft, patience and repeated return rather than a passing camp. The site is not grand in legend, but it is striking in age: humanity was already shaping that landscape when much of what is now called ancient was still unborn.
Archaeological test excavations in 1998 revealed evidence for a settlement site in the form of post-holes and wall slots (Reid 2000, 66-67). Artefacts associated with the settlement included pottery and worked flints. A charcoal sample produced a date of 3670+-50 BP.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 26 May 2018.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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