County: Dublin Site name: Maynetown, Drumnigh & Portmarnock
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 20E0598
Author: Gill McLoughlin
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 723200m, N 742050m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.414175, -6.146746
Pre-planning test excavation was carried out along a proposed haul route associated with Phase 1C of a permitted housing development (planning reference ABP Ref. 305619-19). The work was carried out on behalf of Quintain Ltd.
The testing took place over six days from 12 November 2020. Eleven trenches totalling 850 linear metres were excavated along the centre line of the proposed haul route and no features, finds or deposits of archaeological interest were identified. The western end of the proposed haul route is adjacent to a double ditched enclosure excavated in 2019 under licence 19E0303.
Additional archaeological investigation will be required in two locations where the proposed haul route crosses the townland boundaries between Portmarnock-Drumnigh and Drumnigh-Maynetown, however this will not be carried out until planning permission has been granted to breach the townland boundaries.
C/o Courtney Deery Heritage Consultancy, Lynwood House, Ballinteer Road, Dublin 16
