County: Dublin Site name: CALLAIGHSTOWN LOWER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU024-003001- Licence number: 03E1693
Author: David J O’Connor, CRDS Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 699902m, N 723051m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.248421, -6.503046
Assessment was undertaken of a proposed development site at Callaighstown Lower, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin. Test-trenching took place in October 2003.
The site itself is a listed monument, a large area described as a burial ground and church site. It is identified on a 1937 edition of the OS as ‘Chapel Field’. No visible remains of the church are extant but a structure is depicted on the first-edition OS map of 1837 titled ‘Slademore House’. Archaeological features were only uncovered in Trench 5 during testing. The remains of a possible clay-bonded structure and associated metalled surface were uncovered at a depth of 0.8m under the present ground surface. These features were not investigated further and the proposed development would not impact upon them.
Numerous sherds of post-medieval pottery were found in a disturbed context in Trenches 3 and 5. They mostly come from the body of large blackware storage vessels dating to the 19th century. The bottom of an 18th-century glass vessel, along with some creamware, was recovered from Trench 5. A number of disarticulated animal bones were also recovered from Trench 5. The bones are from a disturbed context and had been redeposited.
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