2009:333 - GLENAGERY ROAD UPPER/KILL AVENUE, DÚN LAOGHAIRE, Dublin

The first phase of monitoring of topsoilstripping/site-preparation works associated with the construction of a mixed-use development on the southern section of the former D*n Laoghaire Golf Club was undertaken in July and early August 2009. The lands are partially situated within the townlands of Honeypark and Monkstown North. There are no known monuments of archaeological interest located within, or in the immediate environs of, the proposed development area. Likewise, nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered during a limited programme of testing and monitoring of geotechnical trial-pit investigations undertaken in 2008 (Excavations 2008, No. 451). The first phase of the development was concentrated along the northern area of the site and comprised works associated with the provision of an access road, construction compound and diversion of services and the construction of an apartment block in the north-western area of the site. No subsurface features of interest were uncovered, although in excess of 400 sherds of pottery, mostly of medieval date, were recovered. These will be submitted for analysis and specialist reporting upon completion of the scheme and it is suggested that these may have been discarded during agricultural activities when Cistercian monks farmed the lands up to the 16th century.