County: Dublin Site name: Profile Park, Ballybane and Kilbride
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 21E0061
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 703636m, N 730780m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.317134, -6.444603
Archaeological assessment (Test Trenching) was carried out at the site at Profile Park, Ballybane and Kilbride, Dublin. The site is located within Profile Park, north of Baldonnell Casement Aerodrome, on lands adjacent to and south of New Nangor Road (R134) and north of the internal Profile Park Road.
Test trenching was carried out in March 2021. A total of 32 test trenches were excavated across the site using a 14-tonne track excavator fitted with a 1.8m wide toothless bucket. In total, 1,928m of linear test trenches were excavated. Anomalies identified during the geophysical survey (20R0080) were targeted. In general, the average thickness of topsoil measured c. 0.3-0.45m and consisted of dark brown sandy clay exposing a greyish-yellow boulder clay natural.
No features or deposits of archaeological significance were exposed or identified, and no finds were recovered. The work is now complete. No further archaeological mitigation is required.
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