County: Dublin Site name: Ballyboden Reservoir
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 15E0512
Author: Paul Duffy
Site type: Victorian waterworks
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 713156m, N 726538m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.277080, -6.303301
Monitoring of geotechnical site investigation trenches was carried out on an intermittent basis between 10 December 2015 and 20 January 2016. The construction of a Victorian reservoir and waterworks on the site followed by a 20th-century water treatment plant have resulted in significant ground disturbance across large areas of the site. A total of 16 geotechnical slit trenches and 10 trial holes were excavated through topsoil, subsoil and redeposited formation layers across the site. Where undisturbed ground was observed, c. 0.3m of topsoil overlay a mottled brown-yellow boulder clay. Nothing of archaeological significance was identified during the monitoring of groundworks.
IAC Unit G1, Network Enterprise Park, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow
