County: Dublin Site name: Dalguise House, Monkstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 23E0209
Author: Fergal Murtagh
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 722808m, N 728446m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.292072, -6.157917
Archaeological testing was carried out over the course of three days during April 2023 at Dalguise House, Monkstown, County Dublin, to study the impact, if any, on the archaeological and historical resource of a proposed residential development.
A total of 18 trenches were excavated across the site. Topsoil mainly consisted of a mid-dark brown sandy clay. Trenches 17 and 18 were located to the south of the site at the rear of the property and as a result more variation in the topsoil was observed here. Trench 17, located at the entrance to the walled garden, had gravels with a depth of 0.1m at the surface, which overlay unsorted brick and stone with a depth of 0.3m and finally a plough soil layer of light-mid orangey-yellow sandy clay with a depth of 0.2m. Trench 18 had a very rich black organic layer with a depth of 0.3m overlaying a similar plough soil layer to Trench 17. Subsoil was mottled dark grey gravels and sand with a dark orange clay and sub-angular stone throughout.
No features of archaeological potential were identified during the course of archaeological testing.
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