2015:457 - NEWCASTLE: Primrose Cottage, Main Street, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: NEWCASTLE: Primrose Cottage, Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU020-003
Licence number: 15E0041
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates
Author/Organisation Address: 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 699540m, N 728704m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.299269, -6.506704
Monitoring of site preparation/trench excavation works associated with the construction of a single storey extension to the southern gable of a residence known as Primrose Cottage, Newcastle, Co. Dublin was undertaken in compliance with the Grant of Planning. The development plot is located within the Zone of Archaeological Potential established for Newcastle (DU020-003) and to the immediate north of a possible tower-house site (DU020-00306).
No subsurface features or deposits of archaeological interest were uncovered, and no artefacts of archaeological interest were recovered during the course of the works. In addition, it was noted that the entire development area had been the subject of extensive ground disturbance/reduction works associated with the construction of the existing house.