2020:665 - HOWTH: Phase 2&3 WSN Upgrade, Baldoyle, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin

Site name: HOWTH: Phase 2&3 WSN Upgrade, Baldoyle

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 19E0219

Author: Tim Coughlan, c/o IAC Archaeology

Author/Organisation Address: Unit G1 Network Enterprise Park, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 723865m, N 739721m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.393100, -6.137663

The groundworks carried out for the scheme were monitored between 16 October 2019 and 16 June 2020. Several trial pits, pipeline pits and trenches were dug along the route of the scheme. A metal object, possibly a nail, and a gate post belonging to the Howth tramline were found.

However, nothing of archaeological significance was encountered. No further mitigation is deemed necessary.