1996:067 - CLONDALKIN: Brideswell Lane, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: CLONDALKIN: Brideswell Lane

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 21:16 Licence number: 96E0362

Author: Sylvia Desmond

Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 707105m, N 730438m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.313373, -6.392664

Work on this site, which is located to the west of Newlands Cross, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin, was carried out prior to proposed development. It is the possible location of a medieval roadway linking Clondalkin and Tallaght, and may also have associations with St Brigid's Well to the immediate north. The roadway has never been traced on the ground, although it is mentioned by Ua Broin in his article on Clondalkin (Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland 74 (1944), 198–200).

Five trenches were excavated down to natural, which was reached at an average depth of 1m. The site had been used as a rubbish dump in the recent past and the topsoil, 0.9–1 m deep in each trench, was very disturbed and included modern dump material. Natural subsoil lay directly under the topsoil. No trace of the medieval roadway was revealed. The remains of a modern drain were found in Trench 2. Trench 3 uncovered the remains of a modern laneway, still extant at the extreme northern and southern ends of the site. A modern wall was found in Trench 4.

As Clondalkin was of some importance in the medieval and Anglo-Norman period it has been recommended that a watching brief rake place when the foundations are being cutfor the proposed development to ensure that no further archaeological remains are present on the site.

168 Corbawn Wood, Shankill, Co. Dublin