County: Dublin Site name: HOWTH: 30 Church St.
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 94E0094
Author: Roseanne Meenan
Site type: Building
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 727723m, N 739325m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.388626, -6.079846
A site assessment was required by Dublin County Council as the development is located directly west of 'Abbey Cottage' which is the western portion of the priests' house associated with St Mary's Abbey and is generally considered to have a 16th-century date.
A trench was excavated north-south across the site. It revealed the north-west angle of an earlier stone structure, comprising two courses of quoin stones overlying a more crudely constructed foundation layer. The dressing on the stone indicated a 16th-century date. As this structure and the gable wall of Abbey Cottage observe the same line, it appears that this may have been the original gable of Abbey Cottage which was rebuilt 900mms to the east, probably during the 19th century.
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