County: Dublin Site name: Clogheder/Clonard/Folkstown Great/Flemington (Parkway, Balbriggan)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E1155
Author: Terry Connell, ACS Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Prehistoric/medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 724136m, N 760966m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.583859, -6.125178
An assessment by test-trenching took place on a proposed water main installation at Parkway, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, between 22 and 24 January 2008; 20 test-trenches comprising a total of 2829 linear metres were excavated. The purpose of this assessment was to identify and record any archaeological features and deposits located along the route of the proposed water mains and to assess the archaeological nature of a number of features that had been previously identified by Ruth Elliot (the Archaeology Company) in an earlier assessment in 2007 (Excavations 2007, No. 422, 07E0057)
Three areas containing archaeological features were identified during the excavation of these trenches. These areas contained two burnt-stone mounds and two possible pit-type features all of which were previously identified in the earlier assessment. No other features or deposits of an archaeological nature were identified within the route of the proposed water mains.
