2008:385 - Greencastle Avenue, Coolock, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: Greencastle Avenue, Coolock

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0542

Author: Robert O’Hara, Archaeological Consultancy Services Limited, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 719785m, N 739829m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.395012, -6.198930

An assessment took place in the form of monitoring of groundworks associated with a residential development at Castle Avenue, Coolock, Co. Dublin. The site of the proposed development was located within close proximity to DU015–072, the site of a dwelling dated to the 16th/early 17th century ad, which is recorded as being a tower-house or a fortified house. During the course of this monitoring no features or deposits of an archaeological nature were identified.