County: Dublin Site name: COLDWINTERS/NEWTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0236
Author: Ellen O’Carroll, The Archaeology Company, 17 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin.
Site type: Prehistoric/medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 712638m, N 742975m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.424844, -6.305201
A levelled site (SMR 14:6) and two further sites (14:16 and 14:53) which were recorded from aerial photography were tested in Coldwinters as part of a planning application for Logistic warehousing units. The site had been used as a golf course in the recent past. Site 14:6 was located and found to exhibit significant subsurface archaeological features. Whilst the monument displays characteristics of an early medieval multivallate ringfort, a feature within the monument complex has yielded a sherd of pottery of probable prehistoric date. Site 14:16 was not located, and testing did not reveal anything of archaeological significance. It is likely, therefore, that landscaping undertaken during construction of the golf course has removed any traces of the monument. Site 14:53 was not located during the testing. The many features such as bunkers and tees in the vicinity of the monument site, and the landscaping required to create the golf course, may have served to remove all traces of the monument.
