County: Dublin Site name: BEECHGROVE, Loughlinstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 26:28 Licence number: 96E0265
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, for Project Director, Valerie J. Keeley
Site type: House - 18th/19th century
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 724224m, N 723428m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.246674, -6.138648
This was the second of two sites on the South-Eastern Motorway route. It was the site of an eighteenth-century inn, later converted into a dwelling-house. An initial series of five cuttings revealed the foundations of an approximately square house, which had been the main dwelling-house, and a narrower wing with thinner walls.
The second phase of the investigation involved uncovering the remainder of the building (the westernmost 6m), which stood in the path of a drainage pipe. A large cobbled surface was found to underlie the walls of the narrower part of the building, and a system of drains had been cut into it. These sloped downwards in the direction of a nearby stream.
A large amount of pottery and glass was found, all of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century type. A few pieces of green-glazed tile which may have been earlier than this were incorporated in the wall material. No trace of any definitely pre-eighteenth-century structure was found.
13 Wainsfort Crescent, Dublin 6W
