2016:123 - Powerstown Educate Together School, Tyrrelstown, Dublin

A programme of monitoring took place during groundworks for new school buildings located between Powerstown Road and Damastown Avenue in Tyrrelstown townland, Dublin 15, from November 2015 to February 2016. No archaeological material was identified, and the programme found evidence for extensive modern disturbance of this site relating to the new roundabout, new road and the pre-existing school building. Prior to groundworks there were two schools on the site, a Gealscoil and an Educate Together school. Situated near the site are Tyrrelstown House (DU013-006), a 19th-century two-storey house attached to an earlier c. 1720 house to the rear, on the site of an earlier 16th/17th-century house depicted on the Down Survey. A graveyard and church, known as Mulhuddart Church (DU013-010--), in Buzzardstown townland, has possible pre-Norman characteristics, and is documented from the 15th century, and has 18th- and 19th-century fabric. Rocque’s map of 1756 shows a path connecting these two sites passing through the monitored development site, however this path was not identified during the monitoring programme.

Archaeology Plan, 32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2