County: Dublin Site name: Corkagh Demesne, Deansrath, Kilcarbery and Nangor, Clondalkin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 17E0367
Author: Dermot Nelis
Site type: Nine undated features
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 705100m, N 730800m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.317025, -6.422633
South Dublin County Council proposes to build approximately 1,000 dwellings over a 5–7 year period on a site measuring 87.37 acres.
A geophysical survey was carried out by Joanna Leigh (Licence Number 17R0016) in April 2017. The survey showed the site to be littered with modern ferrous debris, including areas of burnt-out cars, prams, mattresses etc. The modern material resulted in a data set comprising of mostly modern ferrous responses. Although modern disturbance dominated the data some responses of interest were recorded, and testing revealed one of the geophysical features to be of archaeological significance.
Approximately 15,000 linear metres of test trenches were excavated by Dermot Nelis and Colm Flynn. Fieldwork was carried out by two machines fitted with 1.8m wide flat buckets, and under archaeological supervision.
Test trenching revealed nine previously unrecorded discrete archaeological features, and these consisted of an area with slag and burning, pits and a possible hearth. It is anticipated that these features will fully excavated, but excavation has not commenced at the time of writing.
36 Fingal Street, Dublin 8
