2024:847 - Mayne River Avenue, Northern Cross, Malahide Road, Balgriffin, Dublin 17, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: Mayne River Avenue, Northern Cross, Malahide Road, Balgriffin, Dublin 17
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 24E1060
Author: Ida La Fratta
Author/Organisation Address: c/o IAC Ltd, Unit G1 Network Enterprise Park, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 720860m, N 741076m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.405967, -6.182300
| Archaeological testing was undertaken on 14 and 15 October 2024. The proposed development area is located at to the north of Mayne River Avenue, Northern Cross, Malahide Road, Dublin 17, in the townland of Balgriffin. The site is bound by an existing office building (Rosemount House) to the south, the Mayne River corridor to the north, the Site 2 development site and nursing home building to the east and undeveloped lands and the Bewley’s factory to the west. There are two recorded monuments within 500m of the site, a ring-ditch (DU015-116), c. 130m north, and a ringfort (DU015-033), c. 250m northwest of the proposed development area. Recent archaeological testing has proven these recorded monuments to be landscape features associated with the former Belcamp estate as opposed to archaeological features of significance (Licence No. 16E0193, www.excavations.ie: 2016:029).
A total of 10 trenches were proposed and marked out on the ground, avoiding known electrical and water services. Where investigated, natural subsoil was encountered immediately beneath the tarmac and hardcore surface. No archaeological features, deposits or structures were identified during the test trenching. In addition to the LUGS scan signals, a significant electricity cable was identified running east-west across the centre of the site. The western edge of the site borders a green space which appears to retain the original ground level. This level is 1m above the level within the site indicating that significant scarping has taken place. Despite the location of the site on the fringe of a historic watercourse, the prevalence of services across the site and the apparent scarping and extensive ground disturbance means the archaeological potential of the site is deemed to be negligible. As such, no further archaeological mitigation is deemed necessary. |