County: Wicklow Site name: GLEBE NATIONAL SCHOOL, CHURCH HILL, WICKLOW
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WI025-012 Licence number: 11E0202
Author: Yvonne Whitty
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 731253m, N 694207m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.982230, -6.044350
The archaeological assessment for a development at Glebe National School, Church Hill, involved test-trenching. Examination of the OS maps indicates that the present site has been the location of a school from at least the time of the first-edition map in 1838. The original location of the school was adjacent to the road and today the main building of the school occupies the centre of the site and has a larger footprint. The development involved the removal of an existing prefabricated building to the front of the school and its replacement with a new prefabricated temporary building. It will also involve the construction of a new single-storey extension adjacent to the existing school buildings.
No finds or features of archaeological significance were exposed in any of the three trenches excavated, which are also the foundation trenches for the extension. Any archaeological features present on the site may have been removed during clearance works associated with the existing school.
De Faoite Archaeology, Unit 10 Riverside Business Centre, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow
