County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Digges Lane / Mercer St.
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 94E0194
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 715602m, N 733680m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.340712, -6.264027
The site lies immediately to the south of one assessed by the writer in 1991 (Excavations 1991, 21–2) just outside the site of the medieval St Stephen's Leper Hospital.
Six trenches were excavated on December 8, 1994. All trenches yielded similar stratigraphy.
Subsoil occurred between 2.5m and 3.2m below the modern sloping ground level. It was overlain by medieval cultivation soils that measured from 0.6–1.2m in depth. These contained pottery varying in date from the 12th to the 17th centuries.
The medieval deposits were overlain by 17th century organic material that measured up to 0.6m in thickness and contained large amounts of pottery and tiles. This was in turn capped by modern fills and shallow cellars on the street-frontages of the site.
15 St.Brigid's Road Upper, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
