County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Fyffes Yard, Beresford Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 94E0180
Author: Neil O'Flanagan
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 714926m, N 734026m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343966, -6.274060
The excavation of Fyffes Yard took place in December 1994 to January 1995, in an area measuring 1,250m east-west and 8.5m north-south. The site, north of Mary's Lane, named after the nearby St Mary's Abbey, appeared to survive as open area at least from the 1750s up to the present day. There were almost no structural remains on the site, but copious amounts of medieval pottery, and pits filled with animal bone attest to activity in the area. The pottery had a higher than normal proportion of Leinster cooking ware, and perhaps this indicates the sale of cooked meats in an area characterised by related street names including Fisher, Bull and Cow Lanes. The pottery range centres on the 13th century, and several stick pins were recovered. This medieval activity was overlain by garden soils which were later truncated by post-medieval pits of unknown function.
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