2009:AD3 - OLD STOCKHOLE LANE, CLOGHRAN, Dublin

Limited testing, carried out in advance of proposed development, was undertaken in March 2009 across 7.0ha of low-lying greenfields in the townland of Cloghran, near to Dublin Airport. Some 0.07ha of test-trenches were opened, on the basis of geophysical survey (B. Th&baudeau 2008, 08R0026), landscape analysis and accessibility.
Archaeology was identified in one general location within the site, and consisted of (above-and below-ground) settlement remains from the post-medieval Cloghran House, its attached farm buildings, and an adjacent small remnant formal garden. This assessment tentatively dated the earliest post-medieval material to the second quarter of the 18th century (c. 1725–40), possibly indicating an early 18th-century origin for Cloghran House. Aboveground remains were in the form of former walls of Cloghran House reused in modern farm buildings. The underground remains of the same house, its farmyard and garden had been truncated by later use of the area as part of the lands of the former Glebe House – and later Cloghran Stud Farm – across the road (outside of the development site), and by the continuing use of the area as a farmyard up until the time of testing.