2017:737 - Feltrim House, Feltrim Hill, Fingal, Dublin

Testing was carried out at Feltrim House, Fingal, Co. Dublin between 11–18 August 2017 on behalf of Roadstone Ltd, Fortunestown, Tallaght, Dublin 24. The site is not the subject of any proposed development and the testing was requested by Roadstone Ltd., who own the site, in order to record, uncover, plan and date the remaining parts of the structure predating Feltrim House (uncovered during the 2016 assessment phase) and to determine whether any evidence exists for an earlier castle on the site which is a Recorded Monument (DU015-038). Both the 2016 and 2017 phases of assessment succeeded in identifying the phasing of development at Feltrim from the 15th-century castle to the 19th-century outbuildings and subsequent demolition and site clearance.
The 2017 assessment revealed the location and size of the 15th-century keep/castle (F311) and east range (F318) that once stood immediately to the rear of Feltrim House to the north. The original foundation of Feltrim house was dated to the late 16th-17th century and portions of window sills and jambs dating to the period were exposed and in some places reused within the fabric of the later 17th–18th-century enlargement/modifications. The house was enlarged to the north during the 17th–18th centuries with the addition of a number of rooms in a north–south wing and again in the 19th century with the addition of agricultural buildings in the courtyard to the north-west. The house was demolished between 1893 and 1910.

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