County: Dublin Site name: Donnybrook
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0022
Author: Declan Moore, Moore Archaeological & Environmental Services Ltd, Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Ballybrit, Galway.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 718351m, N 730940m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.315497, -6.223799
Testing was carried out in greenfield areas at the RTÉ Campus, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, between 27 and 29 January 2010. The proposed development consists of the future provision of a new broadcasting facility at the RTÉ Campus. The work entails the construction of a new studio block in the north-western greenfield area of the campus and also includes the site of the existing radio building, a multi-storey carpark and areas of surface car-parking and associated services. There are two protected structures on the site, Montrose House and Mount Errol House (but not included in the application site). The proposed development is also on previously undeveloped land beside the zone of archaeological potential for DU022–084, a viking burial.
Testing revealed extensive disturbance throughout the site, comprising modern field drains, modern service cuts, imported soils, building rubble, bedding surfaces for temporary accommodation huts/prefabs, a brick surface and pockets of decaying stone and natural subsoil. Nothing of an archaeological nature was evident.
