County: Dublin Site name: BALLYMUN (Plot 24)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1516
Author: Ruth Elliott, for Dagda Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 716425m, N 739725m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.394620, -6.264580
Monitoring was a condition of planning permission for the development of an apartment complex with sports and leisure centre at Plot 24, Ballymun, Dublin 9. Though in a heavily built-up area, the site lay c. 500m north of the possible site of Stormanstown House (SMR 14:67(01)). This had been shown on Rocque’s 1760 map and marked ‘in ruins’ on the OS map of 1837. There was no further cartographic record of the site, and no trace of it survived above ground.
Monitoring was carried out between 2 October and 19 November 2002. The north-eastern part of the L-shaped site largely comprised the infrastructural elements of a roundabout system and subway. In the rest of the site, tarmac, concrete or a thin layer of imported topsoil (up to 0.25m deep) directly overlay the natural subsoil. No archaeological features or remains were uncovered during groundworks.
Top Mews, 23 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4
