1998:129 - KILCARBERRY DISTRIBUTION PARK, Nangor, Clondalkin, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: KILCARBERRY DISTRIBUTION PARK, Nangor, Clondalkin

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0572

Author: Dermot Nelis, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 704367m, N 731215m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.320898, -6.433493

The development is for the provision of infrastructural works to serve an industrial distribution park. Monitoring was requested as a condition to any planning permission. Reference to the SMR reveals the presence of a number of recorded monuments within the general landscape, although there are no known sites within the proposed development area.

Monitoring, ongoing at time of writing, has failed to note any archaeological features on the site, with the exception of one 1m-wide north-south modern field drain. Finds have been restricted to the north-west corner of the site but include only sherds of post-medieval pottery along with several sherds of modern pottery, all recovered from the topsoil.

Removal of topsoil has revealed limestone bedrock across the site, with occasionally a natural layer of friable, mid-grey, fine, silty clay with moderate stone inclusions sealing the bedrock layer and sealed by topsoil.

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