County: Dublin Site name: GRANGE CASTLE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PARK, Grange/Nangor/Kilmahuddrick
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0718
Author: Ian W. Doyle for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 704348m, N 731691m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.325186, -6.433615
Monitoring continued in the townlands of Grange, Nangor and Kilmahuddrick. Wyeth Medica Ireland commenced construction of a biotechnology campus in this area in September 2000.
The campus area is located west of Clondalkin village and incorporates parts of the townlands of Grange, Kishoge, Kilmahuddrick and Nangor. It is bounded to the north by the Grand Canal, to the south by New Nangor Road, to the east by a new housing estate and reservation for the South Dublin Outer Ring Road and, finally, to the west by the Grange Castle International Business Park access road. The Wyeth Medica Ireland site is approximately 90 acres in extent.
Previously, during 2000, excavation in Kilmahuddrick townland concentrated on a prehistoric ring-barrow, which was resolved in advance of construction (Excavations 2000, No. 225, 00E0448). Monitoring of topsoil-stripping in October 2000 led to the identification and excavation of a small fulacht fiadh in Nangor townland.
The monitoring of topsoil-stripping within these townlands continued during January 2001. No additional archaeological material was detected.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
