County: Dublin Site name: JAMESTOWN: Ballyogan Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 26:1 Licence number: 98E0119
Author: Laurence Dunne, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 720408m, N 724521m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.257366, -6.195369
All aspects of ground disturbance in the development of a sewage outfall at Ballyogan Road, Jamestown, Stepaside, Co. Dublin, were monitored from 23 March to 23 April 1998, when sewage pipe-laying was undertaken over c. 150m. The licence was transferred to Martin Reid for the remainder of the works (see No. 204, Excavations 1998).
A section of the Pale Ditch runs east-west, parallel to the proposed development, and is manifest as a linear earthen bank with an internal and external fosse. The Pale boundary was constructed under an act of Poyning's Parliament in 1494 to defend the rapidly receding Anglo-Irish heartland against increasing encroachments from the Gaelic Irish. The Pale Ditch survives as an interrupted linear earthwork, and archaeological investigation has shown that it also varies morphologically.
Development works on this site commenced on the northern side of the Ballyogan Road. The topsoil was stripped with a track machine using a flat grading bucket. No archaeological features, deposits or artefacts were recorded. Trench excavations for the sewage pipe commenced at the eastern end of the field, on the southern bank of the Ballyogan Stream. In general the trench was 3.5m deep, and no archaeological stratigraphy, features or artefacts were recorded. The stratigraphy consisted of grey/brown and orange/brown, sandy clays that in places overlay granite bedrock.
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