County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Mount Brown Mills, Kilmainham
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 94E0079
Author: D.L. Swan, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: Water mill - unclassified
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 713279m, N 733721m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.341582, -6.298886
Mount Brown Mills is located just north of the roadway which extends west from James's St. towards Kilmainham, lying between this road and the river Cammac to the north. At present it comprises a large area of open ground, partly occupied by a complex of structures which has as its core a tall mill of mid-19th-century date. It is surrounded on all sides by a number of warehouses, storage areas and out-offices of dates which vary from pre-Victorian to modern times. In view of its location within an area of archaeological potential, archaeological testing was required as a condition for permission to develop the site.
The site was extensively tested in three selected areas where significant results might have been anticipated. In general, it appears that there is little if any firm evidence for pre-18th-century activity in the areas tested and such as there was may best be interpreted as having been in connection with the raising of the surface levels and/or reclamation of land from the river bed.
No archaeologically significant structures, features or deposits were revealed in any of the areas tested.
32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
