County: Dublin Site name: BALDONNELL LOWER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU021-097---- Licence number: 03E0374
Author: Sinead Phelan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Kiln - corn-drying
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 705016m, N 729547m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.305785, -6.424308
An excavation took place, in advance of the South County Dublin Outer Ring Road, on low-lying well-drained pastureland in the townland of Baldonnell Lower. Features were uncovered during the topsoil-stripping of the haul road for the Outer Ring Road, which was being monitored by Red Tobin (see No. 620, Excavations 2003, 02E1808). The construction of the haul road involved the removal of the topsoil across a 10m-wide corridor and the excavation of a trench c. 2m in width, which revealed a series of previously unrecorded archaeological deposits.
A figure-of-eight-shaped kiln, 1.8m north–south by 0.8m, with a series of stratified charcoal deposits within the fire bowl, possibly a corn-drying kiln, was revealed, with a smaller pit 0.3m in diameter associated with it. Three post-holes were excavated 8m south of the kiln cutting a deposit of burnt and decayed limestone. These features, although in close proximity to the kiln, appear to be unrelated.
No datable artefacts were recovered from the excavation. A charcoal sample for radiocarbon dating was taken and the results are forthcoming.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
