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Cultural Heritage Study Redrock Howth CRDS Ltd., 2 Grosvenor Terrace, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Tel: (+353) 87 853 9909 Email: [email protected] Web: www.crds.ie on behalf of 3rd December 2019 Company Registration No: 310188 (Eire). V.A.T. Registration No: IE6330188P CRDS/SM/ANC/KM/RR Red Rock, Sutton, Fingal December 2019 i Archaeological Assessment CRDS/SM/ANC/KM/RR Red Rock, Sutton, Fingal TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................................................................ III LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................................................................................................. III LIST OF PLATES ................................................................................................................................................ III 1.1.1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. SITE LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................................. 1 1.2. PURPOSE OF ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................................................... 1 2.2.2. BASELINE SURVEY .................................................................................................................................... 1 2.1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 1 2.2. RECORDED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND MONUMENTS ..................................................................................... 2 2.3. TOPOGRAPHICAL FINDS .............................................................................................................................. 2 2.4. EXCAVATIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 2 2.5. COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ..................................................................................................................... 3 2.6. NATIONAL INVENTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE ....................................................................................... 3 2.7. CARTOGRAPHIC SOURCES ........................................................................................................................... 3 2.1. SHIPWRECK INVENTORY ............................................................................................................................. 3 3.3.3. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HHISTORICALISTORICAL BACKGROUND .................................................................................. 5 3.1. THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD ........................................................................................................................... 5 3.2. THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD ..................................................................................................................... 6 3.3. THE VIKING PERIOD .................................................................................................................................. 7 3.4. THE ANGLO -NORMAN PERIOD .................................................................................................................... 7 3.5. THE LATE MEDIEVAL AND POST -MEDIEVAL PERIODS ........................................................................................ 7 3.1. THE MODERN PERIOD ............................................................................................................................... 9 3.2. SHIPWRECKS .......................................................................................................................................... 11 4.4.4. SITE ASSESSMENT .................................................................................................................................. 12 5.5.5. ORAL HISTORIES .................................................................................................................................... 25 6.6.6. CONCLUSIONS ....................................................................................................................................... 29 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................................................... 30 Appendix 1. Recorded Archaeological Monuments And Places ............................................................................ 31 Appendix 2. Archaeological Finds Recorded In The Topographical Files Of The National Museum Of Ireland, From Townlands Within A 1.5km Radius Of The Site ............................................................................................ 36 Appendix 3. Licenced Excavations Undertaken In The Study Area ........................................................................ 37 Appendix 4. Features Included In The Record Of Protected Structures In The Fingal County Council Development Plan 2017–23 ........................................................................................................................................................ 50 Appendix 5. Features Included In The National Inventory Of Architectural Heritage ........................................... 51 Appendix 6. Recorded Shipwrecks From The Sutton Area ................................................................................... 59 December 2019 ii Archaeological Assessment CRDS/SM/ANC/KM/RR Red Rock, Sutton, Fingal LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Recorded Archaeological Monuments and Places ................................................................... 2 Table 2. Recorded archaeological finds .................................................................................................. 3 Table 3. Licenced Excavations ................................................................................................................ 4 Table 4. Record of Protected Structures ................................................................................................ 4 Table 5. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ........................................................................... 5 Table 6. Navigation charts examined in the National Maritime Museum, County Dublin .................. 11 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Site location ............................................................................................................................. 1 Figure 2. Recorded archaeological monuments and places within c. 1.5km of the site ........................ 6 Figure 3. Extract from Down Survey ‘Map of the Barony of Coolock’ (1654–6) .................................... 8 Figure 4. Extract from John Rocque’s ‘Plan of Dublin’ (1760) ................................................................ 8 Figure 5. Extract from Ordnance Survey 1 st edition 6-inch map (1836–7) ............................................. 9 Figure 6. Extract from the Ordnance Survey revised 25-inch map series (1888–1913) ....................... 10 Figure 7. Recorded sites from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ................................ 10 Figure 8. Locations of recorded shipwrecks in the area of Red Rock ................................................... 11 LIST OF PLATES Plate 1. Nature of vegetation across site. ............................................................................................ 12 Plate 2. Bottle Quay .............................................................................................................................. 13 Plate 3. Sutton House ........................................................................................................................... 14 Plate 4. Sutton House and surrounding grounds ................................................................................. 14 Plate 5. Boundary stone ....................................................................................................................... 15 Plate 6. Boundary stone, vegetation covered ...................................................................................... 15 Plate 7. Martello Tower from north ..................................................................................................... 15 Plate 8. Martello Tower from south ..................................................................................................... 15 Plate 9. Rubble granite wall with rubble granite coping ...................................................................... 16 Plate 10. Wrought-iron gate supported on square profile gate piers with granite coping.................. 16 Plate 11. Small harbour with associated boat house ........................................................................... 17 Plate 12. Eastern arm of the harbour ................................................................................................... 17 Plate 13. Boat house ............................................................................................................................. 18 Plate 14. Coursed rubble granite wall with rubble granite coping and cement pointing .................... 18 Plate 15. Close up of wall showing cement rendering ......................................................................... 19 Plate 16. Rendered squared rubble granite gate pier .........................................................................
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