County: Dublin Site name: Grange
Sites and Monuments Record No.: None Licence number: 17EO257
Author: Margaret McCarthy MA,MAIAI,ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTANT
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 703293m, N 731784m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.326221, -6.449421
Archaeological monitoring and testing were undertaken as a condition of planning prior to the construction of an extension to the existing Takeda Ireland pharmaceutical plant within Grange Castle International Business Park in south Co Dublin. Previous archaeological investigation in the vicinity of the development site exposed a Neolithic house, a Bronze Age ring barrow and numerous fulachta fiadh. Earlier archaeological monitoring and excavation in the vicinity of Grange Castle identified a curving ditch orientated NE/SW with the contents suggesting a date phase of 12th/ 13th century.
The overall site area was approximately 17 hectares and the location of the new production facility as well as lands scheduled for the temporary construction compound and car park were tested in advance of the initial phase of the groundworks. A total of eight test trenches were mechanically excavated. Testing at the site compound and temporary car parking area at the western side of the development site revealed that the area had previously been stripped of topsoil and filled with modern inert material. Monitoring of topsoil removal on the footprint of the production building site exposed the partial remains of a nineteenth century building indicated in the 1st Edition OS map for the area. This survived as a localised spread (2m NS/1.7m EW) of red brick and fragmented limestone. No other features or finds of archaeological or cultural heritage value were exposed during topsoil stripping at the development site.
Rostellan,Midleton, Co. Cork
