County: Dublin Site name: DONAGHMEDE: Grange Lodge
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1495
Author: Ellen OCarroll, The Archaeology Company
Site type: Gatehouse
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 722624m, N 740524m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.400611, -6.155991
Testing took place at Grange Road, Donaghmede, Co. Dublin, on an area of 133 acres proposed for a large mixed-use and residential development. The site contains two recorded monuments, cropmarks SMR 15:63 and 15:64 (see No. 485, Excavations 2003, 03E1496), and the site of a lodge house, Grange Lodge.
The site of the former Grange Lodge was firstly cleared of all scrub. Three test-trenches were excavated north–south along the site, which uncovered the foundation remains of the 18th–19th-century gate lodge, on the grounds of a larger estate, and associated outhouses. The lodge was a substantial two-storey house with a rounded front elevation. It had two side wings, also rounded at either end. It appears to have had a cobbled yard in the centre and a series of outhouses located to the north of this.
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