1999:255 - CASTLEFIELD AVENUE, Knocklyon, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: CASTLEFIELD AVENUE, Knocklyon
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 98E0586
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen
Author/Organisation Address: 13 Wainsfort Crescent, Dublin 6W
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 711541m, N 727179m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.283187, -6.327270
Work on the site of a small housing development in Knocklyon was monitored because it adjoined Knocklyon Castle, a late medieval structure restored in the early 19th century and still inhabited. Nothing was found except a layer of recent refuse overlying natural gravel. The area was the site of a hill, apparently that which gave Knocklyon its name, which was levelled in the late 18th or early 19th century to provide gravel for road building. Any earlier remains would have been destroyed at that time.