County: Dublin Site name: BALLYOGAN AND STEPASIDE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0467
Author: Martin Reid, for Valerie Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Earthwork and Mound
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 719935m, N 724528m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.257539, -6.202465
Site testing took place in two locations in advance of the development of private housing and a proposed sewer outfall to service the housing.
The first was a cropmark site at the west end of the line of the Pale Ditch (SMR 26:1) in the area of Ballyogan Dump. This site was identified as a possible feature from an aerial photograph. Two test-trenches showed that it was a part of the 20th-century dump and not of archaeological significance.
The second was a circular earthwork c. 23m in diameter, identified by Thaddeus Breen from surface hollows during preliminary field-walking. This site was tested by means of four trenches. These showed that subsurface remains, including a ditch and postholes, survive, although there was cultivation damage to the features. Finds included a flint scraper, fragments of coarse pottery and a fragment of a bronze blade. Most were found in disturbed contexts.
Further work has been recommended for this site, which will be affected by the housing development, and this should take place in 1998.
37 Errigal Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12
