County: Wicklow Site name: MERRYMEETING
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0995
Author: Donal Fallon, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 729187m, N 695021m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.990330, -6.075750
Testing of a green field site in Merrymeeting townland, Rathnew, Co. Wicklow was undertaken in advance of the construction of Broomhall Business Park in September 2005. The development footprint extended over a sub-rectangular area of c. 2.3ha, measuring 190-210m north-east/south-west by a maximum of 125m.
Thirteen parallel test trenches were excavated, extending east-west across the development area at regular intervals. All trenches were excavated by a 13-ton tracked mechanical digger equipped with a grading bucket to the surface of natural subsoil. No features of archaeological significance were exposed. A total of 67 finds were recovered during the course of testing. The earliest find was a sherd of 18th-century mottled ware; the remaining finds consisted of two window glass fragments, ten glass bottle fragments, four clay pipe stems, three iron nails and 47 pottery fragments, all of 19th- or 20th-century date. No further mitigation was recommended.
Unit 4, Dundrum Business Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14.
