County: Dublin Site name: LUCAN DEMESNE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0289 ext.
Author: Gill McLoughlin, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120B Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 702428m, N 735076m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.355964, -6.461324
Monitoring was carried out over two days in June 2009 at Lucan Demesne, Co. Dublin, in relation to the excavation of a section of surface water pipeline associated with Tobermaclugg Pumping Station and a surface water drainage scheme associated with the Adamstown Strategic Development Zone (ASDZ). This monitoring followed on from an initial archaeological desktop survey and testing at the site of the pumping station in May 2006 by Amanda Kelly (Excavations 2006, No. 672), which was followed by monitoring of topsoil removal in that area in March 2008.
The initial plan to insert a surface water pipe in the bed of the Tobermaclugg Stream was revised in order to protect a stone bridge associated with a pathway along the south bank of the River Liffey. The area monitored on this occasion was c. 30m in length from the point where the Tobermaclugg Stream exited an existing culvert under the N4 roadway until it entered the River Liffey. After exiting the culvert, the new pipe was set in the streambed for c. 10m and then parallel to the stream for c. 20m in order to avoid the stone bridge. The construction of the pipe required the excavation of a trench which was on average 1.6m deep and 0.9m wide. Nothing of archaeological significance was identified during monitoring of ground disturbance in relation to this section of the pipeline.
