County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Ship Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 6:20 Licence number: 96E0170
Author: Linzi Simpson, c/o Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burial
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 715380m, N 733717m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.341093, -6.267360
This large development site lies outside the walled town of Dublin to the south of the church site of St Michael le Pole. An excavation in 1981 located the pre-Norman church and graveyard, and part of this excavated area extends into the new development site, on the north-west side. A limited number of trenches (owing to the presence of standing buildings) were mechanically excavated throughout the site in two phases; these produced no archaeological deposits. However, in the area which had been excavated in 1981, a large number of intact disarticulated human bones were located, possibly relating to the backfill deposits from that excavation.
Rath House, Ferndale Rd. Rathmichael, Co. Dublin.
