County: Dublin Site name: BALLYBOUGHAL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0322
Author: Sinéad Phelan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 714894m, N 753888m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.522390, -6.267290
An assessment was carried out as part of an outline planning application on 10 and 11 April 2006. The proposed development involves a major residential scheme located in a large greenfield site at the northern edge of the village of Ballyboughal, Co. Dublin. The historical sources record that a medieval religious house was located in Ballyboughal for some time before the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in 1170, but the exact location is not known today. The most likely contender, however, is the church and graveyard ((DU007–010(01, 02)), which is located c. 100m north-west of the proposed development site, on the other side of the road.
Twelve test-trenches were mechanically excavated across the site to a depth ranging from 0.35 to 0.6m, down to the natural soils. The entire site was covered during the testing programme. No features of archaeological significance were identified during this assessment.
27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
