County: Dublin Site name: CABINTEELY: Bank of Ireland, Old Bray Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0162
Author: Malachy Conway for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 723587m, N 724720m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.258431, -6.147679
An assessment was carried out at the site of the Bank of Ireland Operations Centre, Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Co. Dublin, on 27 April 1999 and involved the mechanical excavation of one test-trench across the footprint of the proposed development. The site is in Cabinteely village between the Old Bray Road (west) and the N11 dual carriageway (east) and lies c. 180m north of an enclosed cemetery at Mount Offaly (SMR 26:119), part of which was excavated during 1998 (Excavations 1998, 36-7, 98E0035).
One test-trench was excavated north-south through the central line of the proposed building on its southern side. The trench, 40m long and 1.3m wide, was positioned c. 35m south of the existing building and was excavated to the top of the natural subsoil deposits. The profile of the northern 15m of the trench revealed dark brown topsoil containing patterned ceramics of 19th–20th-century date and brownware of late 18th-century date, up to 0.6m deep. This overlay sterile, yellow clay loam containing numerous small stones. The southern 25m profile of the test-trench comprised dark brown topsoil with patterned ceramics of 19th–20th-century date 0.4m deep, over orange/brown clay loam containing numerous small stones 0.35m deep, over sterile, brown clay containing decayed stones. No deposits, soils or finds of archaeological significance were revealed within the test-trench.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
