County: Dublin Site name: COLDWINTERS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1450
Author: Laurence McGowan, for Judith Carroll Network Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 711900m, N 741579m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.412467, -6.316798
This work was undertaken as part of a programme of testing, ahead of the proposed realignment of the N2 Finglas to Ashbourne carriageway. The area investigated lies between Chainage points 500 and 900 on the proposed road, and encompasses roughly 30% of the area designated as Testing Area 1. The remainder of the area is in land currently occupied by St Margaret’s Golf Course and will be tested later. The area was tested by means of a machine-excavated central trench with perpendicular offsets located on either side at 20m intervals.
A single oval pit, measuring 0.9m by 0.4m by 0.13m deep (maximum), was uncovered. It contained a single dark-brown, silty clay fill with frequent charcoal inclusions. An additional area, approximately 5m by 7m, was opened surrounding this feature but failed to produce any further evidence of activity from any period.
27 Lindenwood Park, Foyle Springs, Derry
