County: Dublin Site name: Balheary Demesne
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU011-081 Licence number: 13E0370
Author: Billy Quinn
Site type: Vicinity of bridge, no archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 718613m, N 748233m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.470764, -6.213380
Testing was carried out at Balheary Demesne, Swords, Co. Dublin in advance of the proposed Swords Watermain Rehabilitation Project. The scheme proposes to upgrade the existing water infrastructure measuring 5250m in length, including approximately 4650m of pipework which will be placed along the existing pipeline. Testing involved the excavation of four trenches with offsets, on both sides of the Broad Meadow River, with a cumulative length of 130m. South of the river the land has been improved and landscaped. To the north are arable fields. Typically the stratigraphy exposed was a dark brown humic sod (0.2m) overlying a compact brown silty clay with moderate inclusions of small to medium sub-angular stones (0.25m). Below this was a brown grey, natural subsoil of alternating bands of clay with gravels. No finds or features of archaeological potential were noted.
Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Galway, Co. Galway
