County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 2 Donnybrook Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1507
Author: Edmond O’Donovan and Georgina Scally, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 717438m, N 731873m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.324079, -6.237146
The village of Donnybrook is a Recorded Monument (SMR 18:60) and comprises a number of individual sites. The name Donnybrook is an anglicisation of the Irish name Domhnach Broc, which derives from the site of an ancient settlement on the banks of the River Dodder founded in c. 750 by St Broc. The supposed site of St Broc’s church is now occupied by Donnybrook graveyard. The extent of the early church site is indicated by the modern street-plan of Donnybrook village, where the road veers around what is likely to have been the ecclesiastical enclosure; the enclosure is also illustrated on John Rocque’s map of County Dublin in 1756.
No archaeological finds or features of archaeological significance were uncovered at No. 2 Donnybrook Road. The site was beyond the enclosure and was extensively disturbed by modern deposits associated with the construction of a garage on-site.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
