County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 167–168 Parnell St.
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 95E0257
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 715611m, N 734911m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.351765, -6.263457
The site of a proposed commercial development at 167–8 Parnell St. was archaeologically tested on 21 November 1995. The site, though outside the zone of archaeological potential, is in sufficiently close proximity to the find of a Viking burial in Parnell Sq. North. Four trenches were excavated on the site in order to confirm the supposed presence of basements and assess the possibility of strata surviving beneath the floors.
The only features uncovered during the testing of the site were the walls of two houses which previously stood on the site and which are recorded on the OS 6" maps. As both of these houses contained basements to a depth of 3.7m below present ground level any archaeological stratigraphy that previously existed here would have been destroyed by their construction, probably during the 18th to 19th centuries. The north-east corner of the site was disturbed by later building activity. The natural boulder clay was exposed at a depth of 2.8m here. The only finds recovered were of 20th-century date and no archaeological deposits were present.
Mespil House, Sussex Road, Dublin 4
