County: Dublin Site name: JAMESTOWN: Ballyogan Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0535
Author: John Ó Néill, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 720408m, N 724521m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.257369, -6.195369
An assessment was undertaken of a field adjoining part of the Pale boundary ditch (SMR 26:115) at Ballyogan Road, during the preparation of an impact statement for a proposed development of the site. The Pale ditch runs across the northern boundary of the field, and the peculiar topography of the land to the south-east of the field suggested that it may represent a continuation of the Pale ditch. A geodetic survey of the boundaries to the south-east was inconclusive, and it was proposed that topsoil be removed from three trenches in the centre of the field to determine whether the Pale ditch included a section that joined the south-eastern boundary of the field.
Traces of a cut were noted where topsoil was removed close to the existing Pale ditch. This feature is likely to be part of the upper fill of a culverted drain. There was no evidence to suggest that a ditch or banked feature may have crossed the field diagonally toward the south-east.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
