County: Dublin Site name: Pelletstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 15E0102
Author: David McIlreavy, IAC Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 711766m, N 737657m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.377258, -6.320214
Monitoring was carried out for construction groundworks at Pelletstown, Dublin 15 in response to planning conditions attached to a development (Planning Ref.: 3604/12). The monitoring was carried out by David McIlreavy and Robert Mulraney. The development area is located between two large-scale residential developments within the Pelletstown Strategic Development and Regeneration Area.
The site is situated between the Royal Canal and the River Vale in relatively flat terrain that has been somewhat artificially levelled as a corral for building debris. At the commencement of monitoring the site could be characterised as greenfield, although building debris was noted across the ground surface.
Three archaeological sites are noted within 500m of the site. Pelletstown Castle (DU014-074) is located 340m to the north-west, although nothing of the original structure now survives, excepting a ‘kidney-shaped mound (L 6.5m, Wth 7m, H 1.6m) of collapsed rubble’. Five unenclosed inhumation burials (DU014-095) were identified 434m to the east, consisting of two individuals within stone-lined gave cuts, surrounded by two juveniles and at least one other adult. Cardiffsbridge (DU014-075) is located 446m to the north-east, comprising a four-arched stone bridge, the lower portions of which might be medieval in date.
No features of archaeological significance were identified during the course of monitoring works. No further archaeological works are deemed necessary in regard to this phase of the development.
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