County: Dublin Site name: BROWNSBARN/COLLEGELANDS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0541
Author: John Ó Néill, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 704628m, N 727527m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.287722, -6.430787
As part of the Baldonnell Airmotive development, an assessment was carried out on a site listed in the Sites and Monuments Record as a ringfort (21:21). The registered site was bisected by a field boundary, with one half lying in Collegelands townland and the other in Brownsbarn. The last use of the site was as a pitch-and-putt golf-course, and there were clear signs of earlier agricultural improvements.
Five trenches were opened in Brownsbarn at the northern limits of the area to be developed. These were opened perpendicular to the field boundary, which was purported to bisect the site. None of the trenches yielded any finds of archaeological significance, other than a stone-filled land drain.
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