County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 20-23 Merchant's Quay
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Riverine revetment
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 710427m, N 734226m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.346721, -6.341524
Two trenches were excavated across the site to ascertain whether stone or timber waterfronts or other structures may still survive. The overburden consisted of very loose building rubble and varied between 2m-3m in depth. A medieval dump layer was exposed beneath the overburden and varied in depth between 1m-1.5m. In the western trench a timber raft was exposed which had been laid oil the top of the medieval material to act as foundation for the walls of the post-medieval building. However, no large timber or stone structures were found in these trenches.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
