County: Dublin Site name: Robswall
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0609
Author: Declan Moore, Moore Archaeological & Environmental Services Ltd, Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Ballybrit, Galway.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 723930m, N 745214m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.442431, -6.134523
Testing was carried out at Robswall, Malahide, Co. Dublin. The assessment was commissioned as part of the pre-development work for Malahide Reservoir and associated pipelines. As yet the exact form the development will take has not been agreed. The proposed pipeline passes in the vicinity of a possible mound site (DU012–032). Initial testing was carried out in late 2006 and a subsequent phase was carried out in September 2007. Although the proposed development is located in a wider landscape of known monuments, as well as a possible site as described above, and thus is of archaeological potential, the subject site has been disturbed by quarrying works and subsequent backfilling to a significant depth. The mound site was not discovered during the course of testing. Local informants indicated that the area had been dug out some time in the past. It is also possible that the recent Robswall housing development to the north-east may have disturbed the mound site.
