2001:350 - DALKEY: 1–2 Sorrento Road and 5 Railway Road, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: DALKEY: 1–2 Sorrento Road and 5 Railway Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 01E0559
Author: Rob Lynch, IAC Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 726491m, N 726786m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.276303, -6.103357
The development consisted of the expansion and refurbishment of a licensed premises. No. 5 Railway Road is a vacated retail premises, while 1–2 Sorrento Road form a public house, the Sorrento Lounge. Archaeological works began on 20 June. Five test-trenches were opened. Trenches 1 and 2 were excavated to natural and did not produce anything of archaeological significance. Trenches 3, 4 and 5 were excavated to construction depths for the present structures and they too produced nothing of archaeological significance. The stratigraphy that was exposed related to previous construction activity at the site.