2025:720 - Balseskin, Corrstown, Dubber, Fieldstown and Newbarn, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: Balseskin, Corrstown, Dubber, Fieldstown and Newbarn
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 25E0340
Author: Katarzyna Labaj
Author/Organisation Address: 195 Shanakill, Tralee, Co. Kerry
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 712035m, N 750683m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.494212, -6.311540
Licensed archaeological testing within the site of the permitted Fieldstown Substation & compound and secondly of three targeted sections of the permitted underground cable connection from Fieldstown to the 220kV substation at Finglas, Co. Dublin was undertaken in May 2025. Ultimately, a series of 49 test trenches extending for c.3400m were opened across the footprint of the Fieldstown Substation & compound and within three areas of off-road grid route deviations for HDD purposes. All trenches were topsoil stripped using three 13-ton machines fitted with 1.8m wide grading buckets.
An isolated pit (Feature 1) with charcoal-rich fills was recorded in T55. The pit was ‘pear’-shaped in plan and measured 1.6m (east-west) x 1.1m. A small investigative sondage (0.3m x 0.3m) was excavated to establish the nature of the feature. Morphologically, the sondage revealed a steep-sided pit, with a possible flat base at a depth of 0.32m
Nothing of archaeological interest was recorded in any other trenches.