County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 6–9 Green Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0043
Author: Declan Murtagh
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 715160m, N 734672m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.349717, -6.270314
An archaeological assessment of the proposed development site at 6–9 Green Street, Dublin 1, was conducted on 16 February 1996 on behalf of Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Three trial-trenches were excavated by mechanical excavator. The north-eastern area of the site, bounded by Cambells Court, was not investigated as this contained the vaulted basements of the stable block to the rear of Speaker Connolly's late seventeenth-century Capel Street townhouse. This stable block is clearly identified in Rocque's map of the city of Dublin in 1756.
The area investigated by the trial-trenches revealed no evidence of archaeological stratigraphy. The spoil from the trenches failed to produce sufficient datable artefacts to specify a date range for the construction and habitation of the demolished houses, most probably in the nineteenth century. No evidence of related structures or reused stonework from Speaker Connolly's Capel Street townhouse was uncovered during the course of the investigation Consultation between the developer and Mr F. O'Dwyer, architect, OPW, is ongoing with regard to the completion of an architectural survey of the partially destroyed vaulted basements of the late seventeenth-century stable block.
146 lveragh Rd., Whitehall, Dublin 9
