County: Dublin Site name: CARRICKMINES LITTLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU026–005 Licence number: C194; E3188
Author: Colm Moriarty, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 717944m, N 725074m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.262889, -6.232081
A pre-planning assessment was carried out at Ballyogan Grove, Carrickmines Little, Co. Dublin. The south-eastern part of the development site clips the very edge of the archaeological constraint zone for Carrickmines Castle, a national monument. Although the ministerial consent for this work was taken out in 2008, the actual testing programme was not undertaken until August 2009. The development site, which is rectangular in plan and c. 1.8ha in size, is bound to the north by the Harcourt Street Rail Line (now being developed for the Luas) and to the south by the M50 motorway (South Eastern Motorway). It is currently used as a halting site and contains four standing residences, which are still inhabited along its western side, while originally a further six buildings were located along its northern extent but these have since been demolished. Due the presence of standing buildings, internal roadways and live services, test-trenching was restricted to the very northern, western and southern part of the site, where a total of five test-trenches were excavated. These revealed that the site was severely disturbed by modern activity and no features of archaeological interest were noted in any of the test-trenches opened.
