County: Dublin Site name: Unit 22, Greenmount Industrial Estate, Greenmount Avenue, Harolds Cross
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-048 Licence number: 20E0284
Author: Ian Russell, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714613m, N 732241m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.327997, -6.279406
Test trenching was carried out in advance of the proposed development in Harolds Cross townland, in South Dublin in June 2020.
Two test trenches were excavated across the footprint of the proposed development. Each trench measured 1.8m in width and in total 37m of linear trenches were excavated. A natural light yellow brown clay with occasional small angular stones was exposed at a depth of 0.84-0.94m.
In Trench 1, overlying the natural and extending along the entire trench was a dark mottled orange brown clay. A stone culvert, likely of 18/19th-century date and a 4m long section of cobble stone surface was exposed, likely representing part of a yard, both features probably associated with the 19th-century Greenmount Spinning Factory. In the southern part of the trench, the remains of a 19th-century structure were noted.
In Trench 2, overlying the natural was a dark brown silty clay with inclusions of charcoal, shell, red brick and white glazed stoneware. This was sealed by a layer consisting of a mottled grey sandy clay with occasional shell and red brick, with a concrete floor over it.
No features of archaeological significance were exposed and no finds were recovered. The work is now complete.
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