County: Dublin Site name: DÚN LAOGHAIRE: Pottery Road 110KV GSI Station
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1053
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Company Ltd, Consultant Archaeologists
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 724404m, N 728746m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.294396, -6.133867
The development consisted of a 110kV transformer station, 110kV building and MV switch room. The site is located adjacent to the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Plant at Pottery Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. The site is very close to SMR 23:27, a holy well site and a holy bush site in Macintosh Park, which is immediately to the south of the development site. Not far from the development site is SMR 23:15, the medieval monastic site of Kill of the Grange, in which there are the remains of Kill Abbey, a holy well, crosses, an inscribed stone, grave slab and cross fragment, a font in its original position and a ‘possible dwelling’. Nearer still to the site is SMR 23:16, another font in its original position. The site is on the lands of Kill Abbey, which was owned by the Augustine Canons of the Priory of the Holy Trinity. The properties of the soil close to the village have led in recent years to the establishment of brick and pottery works. They were, in medieval times, known as a major supply of pottery clay, and the sale of clay for making earthenware was a source of profit to the priory. The current name, Pottery Road, on which the site of this development is located, is named after the clay supply from the area.
Monitoring carried out on 17 October and 9 November 2005 consisted of the supervision of all topsoil-stripping on the site. The mechanical removal of topsoil was carried out with a flat grading bucket. No finds or features of archaeological interest were found during monitoring.
11 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
