2025:725 - St Anne's House, St Anne's Park, Raheny, Dublin

The 2025 season of archaeological excavations at the site centred on the previously unexcavated portions of the mansion’s former façade, including parts of the picture gallery, porch, the former main hall, the secretary’s office and the study. All archaeological features were excavated and recorded in accordance with the former DoEHLG’s ‘Policy and Guidelines on Archaeological Excavation’. The excavation produced a moderate range of materials including a large quantity of encaustic floor tile fragments dating to the latter half of the nineteenth century, clay tobacco pipes and glass bottles of similar date, fragments of Connemara, Cork and Kilkenny marble, an item of possible Napoleonic memorabilia and artefacts relating to the ultimate use of the house as a depot for Air Raid Protection (A.R.P.) supplies during the period in Irish history known as ‘The Emergency’ but known to the rest of the world as World War II.