County: Dublin Site name: BELMONT PARK, Raheny
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 15:85 Licence number: 00E0611
Author: Teresa Bolger, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 721696m, N 738784m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.385190, -6.170606
A test excavation was carried out to assist in assessing the archaeological impact of a housing development adjacent to the Capuchin friary, Belmont Park, Raheny, Dublin 5. The possible site of an 18th-century windmill is located on the hill on which both the development and the friary are situated. Although eight test-trenches were opened across the site, no evidence was uncovered to indicate the presence of the windmill.
However, as it was possible that archaeological remains associated with the windmill may have survived at the site, monitoring of all topsoil removal and related subsurface works across the site was undertaken. No archaeological material was identified. It is probable that the windmill was located elsewhere on the hill.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
