County: Dublin Site name: Profile Park, Ballybane, Clondalkin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 21E0061
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 703600m, N 703600m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.072960, -6.453955
The site is located at Profile Park, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin, on land adjacent to and south of New Nangor Road (R134) as far as the internal Profile Park Road – Falcon Avenue, spanning the townlands of Ballybane and Kilbride. The site was previously subject to geophysical survey (20R0080) and test trenching (21E0061), with no features identified within this area to the north of Falcon Avenue. Test trenching to the south of Falcon Avenue, however, confirmed the presence of an enclosure recorded as a result of the geophysical survey. This was subsequently excavated (21E0061) and found to represent a prehistoric segmented enclosure.
Monitoring of the topsoil stripping north of Falcon Avenue was carried out by Donald Murphy under an extension of licence 21E0061. It was carried out with a mechanical excavator fitted with a toothless grading bucket, along with the use of a bulldozer. Removed soil was examined for artefacts, with only ex-situ post-medieval/early modern finds recorded from the topsoil. The thickness of the topsoil varied between 0.1m and 0.52m, and the natural consisted of predominantly mid-orange–brown clay. Outcrops of limestone and shale were also recorded, which is typical of the underlying geology.
No archaeological features were observed, and no archaeological artefacts were recovered. The work is now complete.
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