New project is rolled out

OVER the course of the last 18 months an innovative and ambitious project was rolled out in southeast Fingal across an area comprising the peninsula of Howth, the coastal communities of Baldoyle, Portmarnock and Sutton and the bordering areas of Donaghmede and Kinsealy. 

Resurrecting Monuments was initiated by Grassroots Archaeology (grassrootsarchaeology.ie) and Gabriel Cooney of UCD in partnership with the Baldoyle Forum (baldoyleforum.ie) and supported by Fingal County Council. 

It is entirely run and administered by the project group. The group comprises local history society members, local graduates and interested people from the wider community. 

To date, through fieldwork and research, the group has contributed significantly to the appraisal and promotion of local heritage. 

They have conducted excavations in Baldoyle, Tower Hill Howth and St Doulagh’s Kinsealy as well as surveys at St Helen’s Motte in Portmarnock and at Dungriffin Promontory Fort in Howth. 

They meet bi-monthly at the Baldoyle Forum and can be contacted at [email protected] for more information.