County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN AIRPORT TERMINAL II, COLLINSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0440 ext.
Author: William O. Frazer, Skeyelarque2@fastmail.fm.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 716941m, N 743178m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.425733, -6.240420
Monitoring of groundworks on the South Apron at Dublin Airport Terminal II was undertaken from April to July 2008, with the assistance of Carina Eriksson. Particular attention was paid to the former location of Collinstown House.
No archaeology was identified. Notably, no demolition rubble or building debris of any type was identified, suggesting that Collinstown House may have been quite thoroughly removed during the initial levelling of the area (by hand, by a large team of workmen) in the 1930s or during subsequent construction phases of airport tarmac and the underground access tunnel in the vicinity.
Editor’s note: This entry did not arrive in time for inclusion in the bulletin for 2008.
