County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 1–3 Brunswick Street/108a–113 Church Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0029
Author: Tim Coughlan, for Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 714880m, N 734801m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.350937, -6.274469
An archaeological assessment was required in order to fulfil a condition of the grant of planning permission for the development. The assessment was based on the examination of four mechanically excavated test-trenches which were opened on 15 March 1996. The site is located on the north side of North Brunswick Street, on the corner with Church Street and a short distance to the east of the Hardwicke Fever Hospital.
The location and size of the trenches were restricted by a number of upstanding buildings and boundary walls and large areas of demolition rubble.
The trenches opened in the north-west of the site revealed that it had been backfilled at some stage. The deposits uncovered were red brick fragments, indicating that the activity was late, though no date was established. None of the earlier deposits produced evidence to suggest that they had an archaeological potential.
No material of archaeological significance was identified in the excavated assessment trenches and development was not considered to have any archaeological impact.
Rath House, Ferndale Rd, Rathmichael, Co. Dublin
