placenamesShankill
An tSeanchill
An interim excavation report records overlapping enclosures, buildings and evidence of food production and metalworking.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An tSeanchill · Irish · main form
- Shankill · English · main form
Place & story
Finds from Shankill 1
Ros Ó Maoldúin’s interim report on Shankill 1 describes excavation for the N5 road project near Elphin, opposite the recorded church site and graveyard. It identifies several phases of early medieval activity, with two burials, overlapping enclosures, buildings and cereal-drying kilns. Possible raised granaries and a probable forge were more tentative interpretations. The report also records a Langdale tuff axe among evidence of Neolithic activity and a Late Bronze Age cremation deposit. Specialist analysis was still under way when the summary was written. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Shankill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2020:588, Shankill1; licenceE5077, interim report · Ros Ó Maoldúin, Archaeological Management Solutions; Excavations.ie
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.