County: Dublin Site name: Killinarden Park Upgrade, Tallaght, Dublin 24
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU021-056 Licence number: 23E0927
Author: Maeve McCormick
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 707627m, N 726362m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.276649, -6.386227
Works took place between November 2023 and June 2024 according to the construction timeline. Most of the groundworks in the park showed that it had been previously disturbed in recent times during landscaping or nearby construction.
The depth of excavation varied across the park from 0.2m to 1.6m depending on location. To the south, along a hill which slopes south to north, the topsoil was the shallowest at 0.1-0.2m before reaching the compact light brown clay subsoil. The central and northern playing fields which were topsoil stripped showed the area to have been heavily landscaped previously and natural subsoil was not detected. The deepest excavations (1.2-1.6m deep) were associated with drainage and pipelaying localised, for the most part, around the centre of the site. Subsoil was recorded at a depth of 0.5-0.8m in the pockets of deep excavation surrounding the playing fields. Two play areas were excavated in the south-west corner of the park within the Zone of Notification surrounding RMP Enclosure (DU021-056). They both reached a depth of up to 0.6m and showed this area to have been heavily disturbed in modern times, possibly during the construction of the nearby estate. Natural subsoil was not reached in these areas, and the topsoil comprised a heavy mid brown silty clay mixed with plastic and modern debris.
Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered in the course of the works.
Archer Heritage Planning, Unit 1, Tenure Business Park, Co Louth A92 K2VF
