County: Kildare Site name: CARTON DEMESNE, Maynooth
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0061
Author: Angela Wallace, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 696430m, N 737825m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.381793, -6.550565
Monitoring was required within the Carton estate because of the large-scale construction works that would alter the demesne’s use from pasture and tillage farmland to an eighteen-hole golf-course. This golf-course (to be named the Mark O’Meara Golf-Course) is located mainly in the area of the estate that is north of the Rye Water. The construction of this course is the first of several phases of development proposed for the Carton estate. It was apparent during monitoring that a lot of landscaping has taken place on the estate. The main impact to the area was of significant topographical alterations.
Previous alteration work carried out on the estate probably destroyed any archaeological features pre-dating the development of the estate. No evidence of archaeological finds or features was revealed in the course of monitoring.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
