County: Dublin Site name: 18-22 Westland Row, Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Rosanne Meenan, Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath.
Site type: Urban
ITM: E 716626m, N 734026m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343595, -6.248548
Planning permission stipulated an archaeological investigation of this site as it is in an ‘area of archaeological interest’.
Trial trenching indicated that the ground level had been raised by the introduction of clay and household rubbish at the same time as the building of houses on Westland Row in the late 18th/early 19th century.