County: Dublin Site name: CARRICKMINES GREAT (Site 19)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0098
Author: Sylvia Desmond, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Cultivation ridges
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 720809m, N 724405m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.256236, -6.189407
A series of investigation trenches was excavated by hand on Site 19 on the route of the South-Eastern Motorway, to investigate cultivation ridges revealed during aerial survey.
Site 19 is 300m to the east of Carrickmines Castle (SMR 26:05), the remains of a large defensive castle dating from the late 14th/early 15th century, with the possibility of an earlier late 12th-century history of occupation on the site.
The cultivation ridges, which comprise ridge and furrow, date from the post-medieval period and showed no evidence of being part of the environs of Carrickmines Castle, although a small quantity of medieval local ware pottery was recovered from the site.
Metal finds, including a coin, would indicate that the area was possibly used as part of a large army camp, which was based at Laughanstown at the end of the 18th century.
25 Rowan Hall, Millbrook Court, Milltown, Dublin 6
