County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 6–11 Kevin Street Lower
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0061
Author: Declan Murtagh
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 715437m, N 733290m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.337245, -6.266660
An archaeological assessment at 6–11 Kevin Street Lower, Dublin, was conducted on 8–9 March 1996 on behalf of Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
The site is located between Church Lane South to the west and Liberty Lane to the east, bounded by Kevin Street Lower to the north, with St Kevin's Church, a pre-Norman foundation, lying to the south.
Four trial-trenches were excavated by mechanical excavator and revealed a uniform stratigraphy across the site. The overburden was a result of building activity from the eighteenth century to the present. The underlying stratigraphy, which was mainly composed of the build-up of post-medieval layers, remained undisturbed. Medieval pottery was retrieved from a layer c. 0.2m in maximum depth above the natural clays, which were recorded in all trenches, c. 10–10.3m OD. The apparent absence of associated finds from these medieval layers may indicate that this area to the north of St Kevin's Church was in pasture, as suggested by the medieval documentary sources. In 1192, Lord John's charter to the citizens of Dublin records 'the pasture that leads to the gate of St Kevin's church' (Calendar of Archbishop Allen's Register, p. 21).
The second phase of this archaeological investigation will commence following the demolition of buildings which front onto Kevin Street Lower.
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