County: Dublin Site name: GRANGE CASTLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU017-029----, DU017-034---- and DU017-037---- Licence number: 03E0025
Author: John O’Connor, for Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 702836m, N 732705m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.334583, -6.455980
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping for a pharmaceutical plant and associated services located at Grange Castle International Business Park was carried out from 8 January to 2 February 2003. The development consisted of a 20-acre greenfield site, of which c. twelve acres were stripped of topsoil by a mechanical excavator equipped with a toothless bucket. The only subsoil cut features uncovered dated to recent times. These consisted of refuse pits, field drains and areas of burning. The field boundary and watercourse that were revealed had been backfilled in the 19th century. All the finds recovered were either post-medieval or modern in date.
2 Walnut Rise, Courtlands, Dublin 9
