Launched on October 13, 2000, price €9.50 plus €1.90 post and packaging (order details below)
This publication provides a brief account and preliminary statement

Over 1,500 skeletons and many artefacts were uncovered from part of an ancient cemetery discovered under the development site. This significant area was only half the size of a tennis court but contained six layers of remains, corresponding to six burial phases spanning a period of 700 years. The cemetery dates from the fifth century, coinciding with Early Christian conversions in Ireland, and was abandoned in the late twelfth century, after the arrival of the Anglo-Normans.

The study and curation of the large assemblage of recovered remains is still underway, and its precise context and significance will only be fully understood when all the detailed analysis is completed. Nevertheless, the director's first findings provide an interesting insight into life and death in south County Dublin in the Early Christian era.

The book is illustrated with over fifty photographs and line drawings.

See the feature on Mount Offaly in the Projects area for more information about this excavation.