County: Dublin Site name: Eblana Avenue, Dun Laoghaire
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 20E0125
Author: Liam Coen c/o Archer Heritage
Site type: Monitoring, no archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 724276m, N 728682m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.293850, -6.135818
Monitoring of the groundworks for the development of the site was undertaken in fulfilment of a grant of planning permission. Ground/site investigations involving test-pits and bore-holes were monitored in three phases in 2019 and 2020 while the construction phase monitoring was undertaken on 2 November 2020-25 March 2021 on an intermittent basis according to the construction schedule. A variety of tracked excavators with digging buckets undertook the construction phase groundworks.
The underlying natural subsoil comprised a yellow/grey boulder clay. Reinforced concrete slabs, possibly used as foundation supports, were encountered in the north-east end of the site, up to 1.5m below ground level, illustrating the disturbed nature of the site. An extensive dark brown deposit containing broken brick, mortar, clay pipe and pottery fragments overlay the subsoil near the Eblana Avenue end of the site. This apparently accumulated in the early nineteenth century prior to the site’s use as a school.
No features, layers, structures or deposits of archaeological significance were noted during the course of monitoring.
Unit 8 Beat Centre, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
