County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN PORT TUNNEL, Whitehall
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0351
Author: Edmond O’Donovan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Fiels system
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 716825m, N 738325m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.382168, -6.243959
Monitoring was conducted in a large ploughed field (High Park) at Whitehall during preparatory works for the compound and access shaft of the Dublin Port Tunnel. The monitoring identified a series of field boundaries dating from the 18th to the early 20th century. Sherds of post-medieval pottery were also recovered. The results of the monitoring reflect the depiction of the site on historical maps such as those of Rocque (1760) and Duncan (1821).
A small quantity of 17th- and 18th-century pottery (Staffordshire slipware and North Devon gravel-tempered ware) was identified from the ploughzone, but the majority of the pottery was 20th-century in date. A single sherd of local medieval pottery was retrieved from the topsoil. No flint (worked or otherwise) was recovered from the topsoil. The pottery sherds contained in the matrix of topsoil were not associated with any archaeological features. The occurrence of pottery in these quantities reflects the manuring of farmland over the centuries and indicates that the field at High Park has been cultivated for many centuries.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
