2002:0523 - DUBLIN: Camden Row, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: DUBLIN: Camden Row
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 18:20(78)
Licence number: 02E1742
Author: Ellen OCarroll, ADS Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 715403m, N 733144m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.335942, -6.267223
Monitoring was carried out in December 2002 on a site opposite St Kevin’s Church on Camden Row, Dublin 2. Cartographic evidence shows that the site was first developed between 1847 and 1876. Its proximity to St Kevin’s Church warranted the monitoring of all groundworks associated with the development. Ten trial-pits were excavated to reinforce the existing boundary walls. These revealed large deposits of building rubble, which must post-date the period of construction in the 19th century. A buried granite wall was discovered along the eastern boundary of the site. The current boundary wall is built on this older wall. The granite wall presumably dates from the construction of a building east of the site, which is shown on the 1847 OS map. Nothing of archaeological significance was found.