County: Dublin Site name: Adamstown Road (R120) and Nangor Road (R134) Improvement Scheme, Ballybane and Milltown townlands
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 16E0520 Extension
Author: Dermot Nelis
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 702620m, N 731140m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.320566, -6.459729
The development is intended to improve the standard of the existing carriageway on both the Adamstown Road and Nangor Road, and will provide footpaths, cycle tracks, pedestrian crossing facilities, public lighting and two new signalised junctions. The overall length of the scheme is 2.45km. Test trenching in Milltown townland, immediately west of Adamstown Road, in 2016 (Licence No. 16E0520) revealed two associated mortar-bonded stone walls. The walls appeared parallel and were 25m apart, forming the gables of a structure that was orientated north-east/south-west. A concrete floor was continuous throughout the structure at a depth of 0.4m below the existing ground level. A structure is depicted in this location on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map.
Additional test trenching in April 2017 confirmed the structure to be built directly on geologically deposited strata, and no associated or earlier phases of activity were noted. A test trench was also excavated in Ballybane townland in April 2017, and no archaeological features or artefacts were noted.
36 Fingal Street, Dublin 8
