County: Dublin Site name: Carrickmines Manor, Carrickmines Great
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU026–018 Licence number: 04E0114 EXT.
Author: Emer Dennehy, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance.
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 721531m, N 723489m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.247845, -6.178945
Monitoring of development works associated with Phase I construction activities at Carrickmines Manor commenced in September 2005 (Excavations 2005, No. 399) and were completed in August 2006. This phase of topsoil clearance will accommodate the construction of Blocks 1–29, with the construction of Blocks 30–35, situated in proximity to the site of a ‘cross base’, scheduled to commence in 2007.
The stratigraphy of the site comprises 0.35–0.5m of topsoil overlying an orange/brown silt clay with 20% inclusions of decaying granite cobbles. The underlying granite bedrock was extremely high in the north-east corner of the site, having just a 0.05m covering of topsoil at this location. No features or stratigraphy of an archaeological nature were identified.
