County: Dublin Site name: Tallaght Campus, Old Blessington Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 22E0875
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 709178m, N 728095m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.291901, -6.362386
Archaeological monitoring was carried out at Tallaght Campus, Old Blessington
Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24. The site was subject to the geophysical survey (07R0114) and subsequently subject to archaeological testing in 2010 (10E0026), which identified a series of medieval cultivation ditches, a pit, and undated ditch and post-medieval stone drains, excavated under licence 11E0054.
Topsoil was removed to a depth of less than 0.4m across the area monitored, and natural subsoil was not exposed. Three minor test trenches/pits were excavated in order to assess the depth of topsoil. The natural was exposed in these at a depth of between 0.7-0.8m.
No archaeological features or deposits were exposed, and no finds were recovered.
The current phase of soft groundworks will not exceed 0.4m, the natural subsoil, which survives at a depth of 0.7-0.8m will not be exposed at any stage of the development.
Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth. A92 DH99.
