County: Dublin Site name: St Agnes' Convent, Armagh Road, Crumlin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 15E0129
Author: Denis Shine, CRDS Ltd
Site type: Modern urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 712820m, N 731218m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.319192, -6.306674
At the request of McGill Construction Ltd, on behalf of St Agnes' Medical Ltd (developer), testing and monitoring at St Agnes' Convent, Crumlin, Dublin 8, was carried out in advance of the construction of a Primary Care Centre (PCC).
Testing (followed by monitoring as a extension to the existing licence in December 2015) was required as a condition to grant of planning from Dublin City Council (An Bord Pleanála Ref: 2881/12).
The 4 test trenches (totaling 116m) were excavated in May 2015 to investigate the footprint of the new building; these revealed no features of archaeological significance and no further archaeological mitigation measures were recommended for the site.
However, due to access restrictions and the development programme it was not possible to test the access road at the time testing was conducted. Monitoring of the access road (and ancillary works) was conducted intermittently in December 2015. Monitoring, indicated that most, if not all, of the footprint of the new road (and ancillary works) had previously been stripped to the level of natural subsoil – presumably as a result of the construction of the adjacent St Agnes' National and Rosary Secondary School, as well as their associated access routes, in the second half of the 20th century. These works would have removed all but the most deeply-cut archaeological features.
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