County: Dublin Site name: BETTYGLEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0051
Author: Eoin Sullivan, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 722436m, N 738079m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.378688, -6.159759
The development site at Bettyglen, Raheny is located 0.5km to the south-east of Raheny village, close to the junction of Watermill Road and James Larkin Road, at the eastern end of the Santry River. There are no known sites recorded for the area of the proposed development. Petty’s map of the half-barony of Rathdown (1654) shows an unnamed windwill a little back from the high-water coastline near the Sheds of Clontarf. Rocque (1760) shows three mills further east, in the vicinity of St Anne’s Park, one ‘Raheny mill in ruins’, and the other two ‘Raheny windmill’ and ‘windmill of Raheny’ (SMR 15:85). Scalè and Richards mention a windmill at Raheny as a seamark in their chart of 1765 (De Courcy 1996).
The development consisted of two blocks of apartments, one to the west and east of an existing apartment complex. Monitoring of groundworks, carried out between January and March 2005, revealed that the western portion of the site had been built up using modern rubble and refuse to a depth of c. 2m in places. The eastern portion of the site consisted of shallow topsoil. No features or soils of archaeological significance were identified during the monitoring of the groundworks associated with the development.
Reference
De Courcy, J.W. 1996 The Liffey in Dublin. Dublin.
