County: Dublin Site name: POPPINTREE: 27 Crannogue Close
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1628
Author: Ruth Elliott, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 714030m, N 740260m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.400165, -6.285258
Monitoring was a condition of planning permission for a private residence at 27 Crannogue Close, Poppintree, Dublin 11. The site is within the constraint zone of SMR 14:61, a ‘ringfort possible, rectangular enclosure site, earthworks site’. This was marked on the first-edition OS map (1837).
Monitoring of groundworks was conducted on 24 October 2002. The site was in the former garden of an end house in a terraced close. It was bounded to the north and west by block walls, and a dwelling-house was situated to the south. Four trenches, constituting the foundations for the outer walls of the proposed dwelling, were excavated. Stratigraphy comprised a basal deposit, 0.3m deep, of soft, light grey, silty clay. Directly overlying this to a depth of 0.3m was a mid-brown silty clay with occasional iron staining. This deposit also contained red-brick fragments, china and broken concrete. The uppermost deposit was 0.1m deep and composed of mixed gravel and clay. No material of an archaeological nature was uncovered on the site.
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