County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Christchurch Cathedral
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Matthew Seaver, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 715127m, N 733980m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343510, -6.271060
Archaeological monitoring took place during the installation of pipe work at Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, on 17 December 1997. Construction of the building began in the late 12th century and, despite having undergone several dramatic alterations, it still has a considerable medieval fabric remaining.
The monitoring took place 0.9m south of the modern chapter house. The trenches revealed late, post-medieval and modern disturbance associated with rebuilding. No medieval stratigraphy was uncovered. However, a fragment of medieval ridge tile and a fragment of line-impressed tile of type L44 (Eames, E.S. and Fanning, T., Irish medieval tiles (Dublin, 1988), 122) were found in a disturbed context.
5 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
