County: Dublin Site name: DUNDRUM TOWN CENTRE, Dundrum
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 22:100/01-03 Licence number: 00E0060
Author: Angela Wallace, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Milling complex
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 717126m, N 727975m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.289132, -6.243264
Eleven trial-pits were opened for engineering purposes within the interior of a 19th-century millpond. The millpond, which is raised, forms part of an industrial milling complex. As the developers intend to conserve the millpond, it was necessary to examine the structural condition of the millpond’s walls and other features. The trial-pits were opened primarily for conservation purposes. An analysis of the walls and base of the structure was carried out in order to establish the nature and condition of the existing fabric. Detailed cross-sections of the millpond’s walls and base build-up were produced.
The trial-pits abutting the dam wall revealed that it is in good structural condition and has some interesting fittings for outflow purposes. The other pits revealed drystone walls, rubble walls or coursed, rendered, walls, with different compositions. The walls to the east and south of the pond are mainly random rubble and drystone walls and are in various states of collapse.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
