County: Dublin Site name: SPANISH CONVENT, Finglas
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0036
Author: Eoin Halpin, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 713126m, N 738625m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.385667, -6.299428
A site assessment was conducted in March 1996. Fifteen trenches were machine-excavated down to undisturbed natural.
The results revealed that the eastern part of the site is by and large made ground, deposited recently in the upgrading of the Finglas Road. The western part of the development area revealed post-medieval agricultural soils overlying natural.
The portion of the site beneath the demolished convent buildings is so badly disturbed that it is unlikely that anything of archaeological significance survives there.
Two areas of archaeological significance were noted. The first, at the extreme southern end of the site, revealed a layer of archaeological soil with pottery, animal bone and charcoal. The second was to the north of the convent buildings, where evidence was found of medieval deposits, with a medieval ground surface surviving intact under a dump of redeposited natural.
Excavation was subsequently carried out on this site in the summer of 1996 (see Excavations 1996, No. 121).
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