County: Dublin Site name: Brenanstown, Cabinteely
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 20E0511
Author: Muireann Ni Cheallachain
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 772708m, N 724444m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.261000, -6.151000
A programme of archaeological testing was undertaken at Brenanstown Road, Cabinteely, Co. Dublin, prior to proposed residential development. The proposed development lies to the north of Brenanstown Road and consists of overgrown land surrounding the modern Appledore House in the townland of Brenanstown, County Dublin. The site is bordered by Brennanstown Road to the south and by residential properties to the north, west and east.
There are three recorded monuments located within 500m of the site. The nearest of these are Brennanstown Portal Tomb (DU026-007) and standing stone (DU026-118). The tomb is also designated as a National Monument in State Guardianship (Nat. Mon. 291) and a Protected Structure. Excavations show that the surrounding archaeological landscape is characterized by intensive settlement in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, with settlement activity recorded along the river valleys and fertile high ground at Brenanstown, Laughanstown, Loughlinstown and Cherrywood.
During the medieval period the wider area would have continued to be well settled with Carrickmines Castle (DU026-005) c. 500m to the west and dense settlement to the south in the vicinity of Tully Church (DU026-023) in Laughanstown, Glebe and Cherrywood. Excavations undertaken in advance of the M50 and the Cherrywood Business Park identified occupation of a ringfort at Glebe (DU026-150) and mixed funerary and settlement activity to the south-west at Cherrywood. The excavations at Cherrywood have been interpreted as indication of a hybrid Hiberno-Norse and Gaelic settlement.
The Recorded Protected Barrington’s Tower (RPS 1729) which is adjoined to an abandoned 1970s house is located c.90m to the south of the development area. The folly was constructed in the second decade of the 19th century
Archaeological testing was carried out on 6 October 2020 and the trenches targeted the open green space to fully investigate the archaeological potential of the site.
Testing revealed no features of archaeological potential.
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