2025:088 - Ballygannon, Rathdrum, Wicklow
County: Wicklow
Site name: Ballygannon, Rathdrum
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 25E0275
Author: Caitríona Moore
Author/Organisation Address: Archaeology and Built Heritage Ltd, Spade Enterprise Centre, St. Paul's Smithfield, Dublin 7
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 718440m, N 688520m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.934411, -6.238127
Archaeological monitoring was completed in advance of a development at Ballygannon, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow. The site lies in the environs of a former Union workhouse and fever hospital demolished in the 1970s, and within the grounds of the present day St Colman’s Hospital. The site was covered with a deep (average depth 1m) overburden of rubble including granite blocks, mortar, metal, glass, ceramics and general waste, likely derived from the demolition of the workhouse. This overlay the former topsoil horizon below which was natural subsoil. No archaeological features were encountered.
