County: Dublin Site name: HAMPSTEAD SOUTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0482
Author: Brendan Fagan, c/o Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715887m, N 738204m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.381284, -6.258105
Testing as part of the advance works on the proposed route of the Metro North light rail project was carried out on behalf of the Railway Procurement Agency. For the purposes of these works the Metro North route was subdivided into fourteen testing areas. Testing Area 14 was located in Hampstead South townland, Co. Dublin, at the site of the proposed Griffith Avenue Stop and construction compound.
Testing of Area 14 was carried out on 30 September 2009. A total of eighteen test-trenches were excavated in one field and no features of archaeological significance were identified.
