County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Queen St./Haymarket
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 714426m, N 734526m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.348565, -6.281383
A watching brief was carried out on the site of a proposed commercial development at the corner of Queen St. and Haymarket, Dublin, on the January 29, 1994. Two test-holes were dug on the site in advance of construction.
The first of these was excavated near the southern boundary of the site to a depth of c. 3m and revealed the presence of a cellar in this area. The top 2.5m contained the fill of the cellar under which was the cellar floor sitting directly on the natural gravel. No archaeological deposits were present. The second test-hole was opened at the northern edge of the site and here again the cellar was recognised under which was the natural gravel. Also visible was the door into the cellar contained in a red brick wall bounding the northern edge of the site. The top of the arched doorway was c. 0.5m below present ground level. This doorway obviously led from a cellar or basement on the next site northwards into a cellar on the site under investigation and suggests that the buildings here fronted onto Queen St. The cellars had been excavated into natural gravel thereby destroying any possible stratigraphy. No dating evidence was retrieved for the construction of the cellar.
30 Laurence St., Drogheda, Co. Louth
