County: Dublin Site name: FORMER BELLVUE MALT MILLS, Islandbridge
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0674
Author: Claire Walsh, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Industrial site and Watercourse
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 712409m, N 734289m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.346869, -6.311740
The site encompasses the western end of Mill Island, with an access road through the northern part of the lands adjacent to the War Memorial Park. Test excavation began in late 1999, and monitoring continued up to June 2000. Clearance of the foundations of the late 18th–19th-century industrial buildings on the site was undertaken in tandem with an industrial and building survey carried out by Fred Hamond.
Despite the significance of its location, in relation to both the Viking cemeteries of Kilmainham/ Islandbridge and the medieval mills of the Knights Hospitallers at Kilmainham, no medieval finds were uncovered from the testing or monitoring. The earliest deposits relate to mill buildings of late 18th-century date on the site. Furnaces of a gas-manufacturing works of mid-19th-century date were uncovered and recorded, as were the original water channels, sluices and other industrial features. All water channels are to be retained in the new development.
25A Eaton Square, Terenure, Dublin 6W
