2025:595 - Ratoath Road, Cardiffsbridge, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: Ratoath Road, Cardiffsbridge
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU014-075
Licence number: 25E0631
Author: Martin E. Byrne
Author/Organisation Address: Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Site type: Bridge
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 712165m, N 737829m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.378718, -6.314159
A programme of Archaeological Monitoring of the foundation trenches associated with the installation of a set of replacement 110kV Electricity Transmission Poles was undertaken at Ratoath Road (Cardiffsbridge Td), Dublin 7. The poles were located within the RMP Zone established with respect to a Bridge (SMR No: DU014-075), positioned approximately 35m to the southeast; this comprises rubble limestone abutments and spandrels with rebuilt block-and-snecked limestone parapets and dressed granite copings; round arches, having rubble stone V-cutwaters with concrete capping; an additional flood arch is set apart from the three primary arches.
Notification of the works was submitted to the National Monuments Service, as required under Section 12(3) of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, who recommended that all ground disturbance associated with the works be monitored by an archaeologist and under licence from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
The excavations uncovered a layer of fill/made ground to a depth of up to 2.2m overlying marl subsoil.
No subsurface features of archaeological interest or potential were uncovered by the excavations; likewise, no artefacts of archaeological or historical interest were recovered.