County: Wicklow Site name: DONARD COMMUNITY CENTRE, Donard
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0378
Author: James Eogan, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 693069m, N 697648m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.021423, -6.612766
Donard Community Enterprises Ltd are renovating and extending an existing community hall that is located close to the medieval parish church of Donard. The National Monuments Service had requested that a pre-development archaeological assessment of the site be carried out, but works had already commenced when the author was requested to attend on behalf of the developers by Wicklow County Council. Three trenches were excavated under archaeological supervision along the lines of the proposed foundations. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered, though the foundations of the 19th-century Church of the Holy Trinity, which stood on this site until the 1920s, were identified.
No further archaeological work is recommended in advance of development.
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