County: Dublin Site name: Monastery Road, Clondalkin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU017–041, DU021–36 Licence number: E003992
Author: Melanie McQuade, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 707259m, N 731265m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.320778, -6.390075
Test excavation and subsequent monitoring were carried out on the site of a carpark that was to be constructed adjacent to an existing building. The site lies within the historic town of Clondalkin and is located 12m to the east of the standing remains of Tully’s Castle, a national monument.
The existing building was centrally located within the site and the carpark was constructed over an existing tarmacadam driveway and an area of garden. It covered an area of 19m by 17m to the south of the existing building, 11m by 14.6m to the north and a 3m-wide accessway was laid down around the eastern side of the building.
No archaeological features or finds were identified during the testing programme. Two ex situ sherds of medieval pottery were recovered during monitoring of ground-reduction works but no features were identified. However, the excavations for the construction of the carpark were not to a sufficient depth to expose subsoil across the site and it is possible that archaeological features may exist in the areas of the site were subsoil was not exposed. Any such features would now be preserved in situ beneath the newly constructed carpark on this site.
