County: Dublin Site name: DRUMCONDRA: All Hallows Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0383
Author: Paul Logue, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 716378m, N 737156m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.371768, -6.251104
An assessment was undertaken at this site on 9–15 October 1997. The site was divided into two areas, lying to the north (Area 1) and south (Area 2) of the lane. Six trenches, varying in length from 2.2m up to a maximum of 48m, were excavated by machine, using a toothless bucket. A total of 230m2 was excavated during the assessment.
In Trench 1A (Area 1) a shallow pit was uncovered. The pit cut the natural and had, on plan, a subrectangular shape. It measured 1.18m x 0.8m and had a maximum depth of 0.2m. Within the pit, a lower fill of redeposited natural clay was overlain by an upper fill of grey-black sticky loam/clay. The feature contained no datable artefacts but may be of archaeological significance.
In Trench 3 (Area 2) a 6m section of an approximately north-east/south-west-running shallow flat-bottomed ditch was uncovered. It had a maximum depth of 0.5m and was filled with a dark grey-brown loam/clay. The ditch was uncovered at an oblique angle and its true width is most likely 3–4m. To the east of the ditch a shallow U-shaped drainage gully was revealed. The exposed length of this measured 4.3m and it had a maximum width of 1.17m. It was filled with a stony grey clay overlain by an upper fill of brown-grey loam. Both features have been dated to the post-medieval period on the basis of the artefacts they contained.
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