Settlement deserted — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Deserted Carrickmines is a medieval settlement whose rectangular platforms and ditches still push through south Dublin grass, centred on castle remains now hidden inside farm buildings. Excavations for the M50 recovered Saintonge pottery, grinding stones, shoes, keys and a cobbled surface, suggesting a productive community rather than a scattered cluster of huts. The place may have milled, spun, ground grain and kept people busy beside the streams, then faded until only shadow and soil remembered it.

Newcastle was first mentioned as a royal manor in 1215 and had borough status by the late fifteenth century. The settlement was a linear one based on a single street, running east-west. The marketplace was located in the roughly sub-triangular space in front of the church. Compiled by Geraldine Stout

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