2010:241 - BARRYSPARKS AND CROWSCASTLE, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: BARRYSPARKS AND CROWSCASTLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU011–045
Licence number: 10E0028
Author: Rob O’Hara, Archer Heritage Planning
Author/Organisation Address: 8 BEaT Centre, Stephenstown, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
Site type: Ring-ditch
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 718585m, N 746000m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.450719, -6.214637
Two phases of testing were carried out at the site of a planned road network through the Barrysparks LAP area and at sites of archaeological potential identified in previous assessments. A total of 34 test-trenches were excavated across the site with a combined length of approximately 2,497m. One archaeological site was recorded during the testing programme, a ring-ditch (or barrow), formed by a circular ditch approximately 13m in diameter. A second drain feature in the same location may be associated. No other features were recorded in the areas tested and no artifacts were recovered either from topsoil or sampled deposits.