County: Wicklow Site name: Greystones Harbour, Rathdown Lower and Rathdown Upper
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0457, 08E0472
Author: David McCullough, for The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd, Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.
Site type: Monitoring; medieval activity
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 729462m, N 712762m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.149623, -6.064520
Archaeological work continued this year and was divided between monitoring the harbour development construction works in Rathdown Lower townland, and undertaking investigation along the route of the redirected cliff walk to the north of the harbour in Rathdown Upper townland, adjacent to and north of the site of Rathdown Castle. Monitoring of the harbour area during excavation works on land and during dredging activity under water recovered a small collection of artifacts, but no significant discoveries were made. The area of greatest archaeological potential was seen in the field north of Rathdown Castle, where investigations revealed a series of small-scale features within the area of the known extended settlement site north of the castle. A series of medieval potsherds were also recovered.
