County: Dublin Site name: BALLYMUN AND BALLYSTRUAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0039
Author: Dave Bayley and James Kyle
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715580m, N 741960m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.415090, -6.261344
Testing was carried out within the footprint of the proposed Metro North Dardistown Depot site in the townlands of Ballymun and Ballystruan, Co. Dublin. The results of this investigation were to be incorporated into the Metro North Dardistown Depot EIS—Material Assets: Archaeological, Architectural and Cultural Heritage Chapter which was being prepared by the RPA.
Testing followed on from a geophysical survey carried out by Target Archaeological Geophysics during 2011 (11R0017). A number of linear anomalies and isolated trends were detected, but none of these displayed characteristic patterns of response to suggest that they were of archaeological origin. A large number of cultivation furrows and some former field boundaries were identified.
A total of 51 trenches, measuring 10,365 linear metres, were excavated across five test areas (Test Areas A1, A2, A3, B1 and B2). A single site of archaeological significance was identified at Ballymun 3. Ballymun 3 consists of a low-level burnt mound and was located at NGR 315654 241935. No other features of archaeological significance were identified in the other test trenches, although numerous post-medieval/modern furrows, drains and boundary ditches were recorded. Ballymun 3 was not excavated at this time.
Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120b Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow
