County: Dublin Site name: DONNYBROOK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0532
Author: Eoin Halpin, ADS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 717793m, N 731345m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.319259, -6.232017
Five trenches were excavated on the site of a proposed new clubhouse for the Leinster branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union. It was discovered that the area has been substantially raised from the original ground level to its present level. There was evidence of some activity in the area during the 19th century, but no evidence of earlier activity was uncovered. The remaining deposits were of a more recent date. The evidence seems to indicate that this area was reclaimed from the flood-plain of the Dodder in recent times and may never have been used in the course of Donnybrook Fair. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ
