County: Dublin Site name: Poolbeg Generating Station, Pigeon House Road, Dublin 4
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 21E0796
Author: Paul Duffy
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 720465m, N 733663m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.339471, -6.191061
Archaeological monitoring of trial pits was undertaken on 13 October 2021 within the existing Poolbeg Generating Station, Pigeon House Road, Dublin 4.
15 test pits were excavated and monitored during works at two sites in the western and eastern areas of the development. A concrete poured slab was encountered across all the test pits to a depth of 0.12m. Below the concrete slab an orange brown sandy silt was noted to a depth of 0.55m but varies slightly from pit to pit. A grey silty fine-grained sand containing very little gravel and stones and the occasional fragments of bitumen and marine shell was recorded to a maximum depth of 1.8m and below this was a similar fill containing more gravel and stone to a depth of 2.9m.
No archaeological features or finds of significance were noted during the monitoring of ground disturbance at this site.
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