County: Dublin Site name: Donabate Distributor Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 17E0094
Author: Aidan O’Connell
Site type: Ringditch, fulachtaí fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 723367m, N 749270m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.478987, -6.141406
Stage (i) Test Excavations undertaken in advance of the proposed Donabate Distributor Road Project. Testing was undertaken across Greenfield locations in March and April 2017. A total of 136 machine-assisted test-trenches were excavated within the site, amounting to 8912 linear metres (16041.6 sq. m) of test trenches comprising 6.24% of the land made available for the scheme. Three archaeological sites were identified in the course of this assessment.
o Corbalis 1 is a 12m wide ringditch recorded at ITM 723506, 749519 by test trenching
o Corbalis 2 is a fulacht fiadh recorded at ITM 723496, 749419 in a previous phase of testing
o Corbalis 3 is a fulacht fiadh recorded at ITM 723054, 749303 by test trenching
The sites were subsequently excavated under separate licenses.
Archer Heritage Planning, 8 Beat Centre, Stephenstown, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin.
