County: Dublin Site name: POPPINTREE PARK, Poppintree
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 14:65 Licence number: 99E0469
Author: Tim Coughlan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 713955m, N 740494m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.402283, -6.286295
An assessment was requested before construction of the North Fringe Sewer in north County Dublin. The proposed route of the sewer is through Poppintree Park, close to the site of a historic well marked as Jamestown Well on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. The well is not associated with a saint and may be a natural well serving Jamestown House. No visible trace of the well survives on the ground, and it is now built over by tennis courts.
Two test-trenches were opened by mechanical digger along the line of the sewer, both c. 14m long.
No archaeological features or deposits were identified in either of the test-trenches. There was no surface evidence of Jamestown Well or other anomalies in the area to the south of the tennis courts.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
