County: Dublin Site name: BALROTHERY: Old Coach Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 5:57 Licence number: 01E0407
Author: Eoin Halpin, ADS
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 720025m, N 761220m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.587100, -6.187144
An archaeological impact assessment was undertaken on the site of a proposed house in Balrothery, Co. Dublin, owing to the cultural wealth of the general area. The village of Balrothery contains the remains of two holy wells, a standing stone, a church, a stone head, a graveyard, a tower-house and a series of cropmark enclosures. There are also the remains of a possible prehistoric mound, SMR 5:8, and a ring-ditch, SMR 5:14, in the near vicinity.
The proposed house site lies within the mature garden of an existing house probably built in the 1960s. The site is roughly triangular, with sides measuring some 25m long and 18m along the base. The house is to be set back some 10m from the road, with its front façade in line with the rear façade of the existing house to the north.
Three trenches were machine-excavated; nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ
