County: Dublin Site name: PIGEON HOUSE ROAD, POOLBEG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU019–029 Licence number: 09E0022
Author: Melanie McQuade, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 721266m, N 738318m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.381104, -6.177244
Site investigations were carried out on the northern end of the proposed development, to the north of Pigeon House Road and north of the recorded sea wall and embankment DU019–029, but the main site works have yet to commence. During the site investigations, subsurface walls of concrete construction were exposed between 0.3m and 0.5m below present ground level. The walls were 0.4m
wide and c. 1.2m high. They were orientated north–south and north-east/south-west. These structures are located on an area of land that was reclaimed in the late 19th century and thus must be late 19th-or more likely early 20th-century in date. They may be associated with the early 20th-century outfall works shown in that area on the 1912 OS map. Further monitoring will be carried out in 2010.
