County: Dublin Site name: 80 WHITEBEAM ROAD, CLONSKEAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0572
Author: Rosanne Meenan, Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 717190m, N 730480m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.311619, -6.241375
The proposed development site is located on the north side of Clonskeagh Castle within a private garden. The castle is an 18th/19th-century structure. There are three monuments near the development site. SMR 22:92, on the west side of the Dodder, is recorded as a ‘dwelling site’. This was a late 17th-/early 18th-century house. SMR 22:93 is recorded as a ford site over the Dodder. SMR 22:94 is recorded as a ‘midden’ on Whitebeam Road.
Three trenches tested the site. At the westernmost end of Trench 1, closest to the edge of the slope, there was evidence for dumping of rubble and stone in modern times. This was probably laid down to level off the ground, close to the edge, so that the shed could be built on a flat surface. No archaeological features were observed and no artefacts were recovered.
