County: Dublin Site name: MEÁNSCOIL IOGNAID RÍS CBS, Drimnagh Castle, Drimnagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 18:36 Licence number: 98E0183
Author: James Eogan, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 710986m, N 731786m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.324690, -6.333974
Test excavations took place over a number of days on the site of a proposed extension to the existing Scoil Iognaid Rís CBS, Drimnagh Castle, in response to a planning condition. The proposed extension will be c. 40m south-west of Drimnagh Castle in an area where a 17th-century bastion may have stood.
Two trenches were excavated in the areas of maximum anticipated disturbance. A stone-surfaced trackway of 17th/18th-century date, oriented south-west/north-east, was uncovered in Trench 1. Evidence of post-medieval ploughing was also uncovered. No earlier features were found within the test-trenches.
In view of the possibility of further archaeological remains surviving on the site of the proposed extension, archaeological monitoring of subsurface works associated with the development has been recommended.
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