County: Dublin Site name: CORDUFF COMMUNITY CAMPUS, CORDUFF PARK, BLANCHARDSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0360
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Company Ltd, 11 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 707639m, N 740043m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.399551, -6.381396
Test-trenching and subsequent monitoring took place at Corduff Park. The site was the former demesne of Corduff House, which was proposed for development by Fingal County Council as a new multi-purpose sports hall with a large area of carparks and a new access road. The demesne had already been extensively developed with modern housing estates and there were already existing community facilities on it.
The site of the development was located on or very close to SMR 13:25, a dwelling. The RMP files indicate that what is being referred to is the large house and gardens which figured on the Down Survey maps of c. 1655, in the Corduff Demesne. Its exact position in the estate is not clear, but it is suggested in the files that it may be on the site of, or incorporated into, the demesne house which was there. The demesne has a long history. The de la Felde family resided there from the 13th to the end of the 16th century. It then became the home of the Warren family, who lived there for the next two hundred years. Corduff House itself is remembered by locals as recently as 1981, when it was burned down.
Trial-trenching took place during the week of 5 April 2005. This revealed the foundations of Corduff House and a pond which was directly north of it. No other features or finds of archaeological significance came to light.
Monitoring during development and recording of the remains of the house was recommended. This took place between 16 May and 19 June.
