County: Dublin Site name: MOUNT ST ANNE'S CONVENT, Milltown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 9:28 Licence number: 99E0022
Author: Franc Myles for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 719008m, N 729335m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.300926, -6.214543
Testing was carried out before the development of a housing scheme. Eight trenches were mechanically opened to natural subsoil with a 0.6m back bucket. Only one feature of possible archaeological interest was recorded (a linear feature that may represent the remains of an earlier field boundary), along with several field drains and a dump of 19th- or early 20th-century rubbish. If there had been medieval occupation in this area, it has been obliterated by the subsequent disturbance of ground levels by later cultivation.
The complex of buildings at the south-eastern corner of the proposed development site, formally the convent of Mount St Anne's, is dominated by Milltown House, which can be dated, from the interior stucco work, to the late 1760s. This structure was built on the site, or in the close vicinity, of Milltown Castle, which from its description in the mid-17th-century Down Survey would appear to have been a gabled dwelling or possibly a fortified house. Demolition of the buildings to the west and north of the former convent will be monitored in 2000, and further trenching will establish the nature and extent of archaeological strata or structures in this area.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
