County: Dublin Site name: St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Road, Crumlin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 01E0465 ext.
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Co. Ltd, 11 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 712014m, N 731632m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.323088, -6.318606
Monitoring was carried out in October 2006 prior to the construction of a wall in the grounds of St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12. The proposed development site lay between the old church of St Mary’s and the 1940s Church of Ireland church (also St Mary’s). The location of the proposed wall was on the grounds of the Church of Ireland site. The OS map of 1837 depicts a ringwork c. 30m in diameter, situated on the site of the Church of Ireland church. By 1865 the ringwork is depicted as a small motte, suggesting that it had been reduced in size. The OS map of 1907 still shows the motte, but by 1936 it had clearly been destroyed, with the site being designated ‘moat – site of’. Although this area is located within the boundary of a recorded monument (DU018–038), topsoil-stripping in the area yielded no features or finds of archaeological significance.
