County: Dublin Site name: DONNYBROOK: Rugby Grounds
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0039
Author: Gill McLoughlin, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 717675m, N 731526m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.320910, -6.233720
Monitoring was carried out on 20, 22, 25 June and 17 August 2007; this followed testing carried out by Rob Lynch, which was a condition of planning permission. Testing revealed nothing of archaeological significance.
A continuous archaeological presence was maintained throughout all topsoil-stripping and subsurface works associated with construction on the site. The topsoil-stripping was carried out by a tracked excavator with a toothless bucket. A thin layer of hardcore and tarmac was removed on to a layer of topsoil 0.4–0.5m deep. The topsoil contained occasional broken ceramic pipes and overlay a natural deposit of river gravels and water-rolled cobbles at 0.5–0.6m below ground level within the development area. The ground level outside the development was raised by a further 0.6–0.7m. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered during monitoring.
120B Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow
