County: Dublin Site name: Ballyboughal
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0322
Author: Sinéad Phelan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance.
Period/Dating: —
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.
