1999:259 - CIANLEA, Moorestown, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: CIANLEA, Moorestown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 11:19
Licence number: 99E0536
Author: Rónán Swan, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 716799m, N 747747m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.466804, -6.240870
Testing and subsequent monitoring were carried out at this site. A housing development is being constructed in the vicinity of the building known as Glasmore Abbey. Analysis of aerial photographs revealed a possible enclosure surrounding the building and another circular feature to the south-west. A series of trenches positioned to determine the nature of both of these circular features revealed no evidence to suggest that they were of archaeological importance, rather that the second circular feature was in fact a horse-training ring.
Furthermore, historical evidence suggests that this is not the location of Glasmore Abbey, which, according to the Martyrology of Oengus, is situated to the south of Swords. O’Donovan, in the Ordnance Survey Name Books, recorded that the building known as Glasmore Abbey was pointed out to him by a local man.
In the subsequent monitoring programme no material of archaeological significance was identified.