County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: No. 27-30 Aungier Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 93E0186
Author: D.L. Swan, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 715625m, N 733626m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.340222, -6.263701
This site is located on the east side of Aungier St., between York St. to the north and Aungier Place to the south.
In view of its location within an area of archaeological potential, testing was required as a condition for permission to develop the site. The area had been covered to a depth of between 0.15m and 0.2m with a tarmac layer which extended across the whole surface of the site, beneath which was a layer of earth and gravel with some brick and mortar, varying in depth from 0.1m to 0.3m. Below this was a deep rubble layer with a discontinuous layer or sequence of lenses overlying the undisturbed boulder clay.
There was one exception to this stratigraphic picture, where the uncut boulder deposits had survived to a height of 1.75m below datum. A tiny portion of an old working level appeared to have survived, where on the upper surface of the boulder portions of oyster shell, some broken, some intact were laid horizontally, and sealed beneath the rubble layers. Elsewhere the upper levels of the boulder clay deposits had been truncated by subsequent activity.
Neither features nor structures of archaeological significance were identified nor were any archaeological artefacts recovered.
32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
