County: Dublin Site name: EDMONDSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0149
Author: Edmond O’Donovan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 713526m, N 725828m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.270624, -6.298003
Monitoring was carried out at Edmondstown Golf Club, Edmondstown, Co. Dublin, during landscaping works at the course, following the submission of an environmental impact statement (EIS) by Annaba Kilfeather on an Early Bronze Age cemetery at the site. The EIS was concerned with the potential impact of the redevelopment of the golf club on any remains of this cemetery. The cemetery was first recorded in the 1950s when Paddy Hartnett of the National Museum of Ireland excavated it. Its precise location was not recorded at the time of the excavation, and one of the principal aims of the EIS was to locate the cemetery and to avoid ground disturbance in that location.
Once the location of the cemetery was established, a circular exclusion zone with a diameter of 45m was created, thus avoiding any impact on surviving remains at the site. No archaeological material was encountered in the areas stripped and rotavated around this zone. The ground disturbance did not involve the penetration of the subsoil, and no artefacts were identified. However, the EIS did establish the most likely location of the cemetery.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
