County: Dublin Site name: St Mary’s Church of Ireland, St Mary’s Road, Crumlin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0465 ext.
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Company Ltd, Consultant Archaeologists, 11 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Site type: Site of ringwork
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 712014m, N 731632m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.323088, -6.318606
Monitoring was carried out, in November 2007, under an extension to licence 01E0465, prior to the creation of new car parking facilities in the grounds of St Mary’s Church of Ireland church, St Mary’s Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12. The proposed development comprised two areas, one to the north and one to the south of the 1940s church. The site is located within DU018–038.
The 1837 OS map 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, topsoil-stripping in the area yielded no features or finds of archaeological significance.
