County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 32 Cook Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0045
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 714826m, N 734126m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.344886, -6.275525
The site is located on the north side of Cook Street, between the two town walls and on what would have been the shoreline of the Liffey in the early Anglo-Norman period.
Six test-pits were excavated prior to the proposed construction of apartments. The culverted course of Colman's Brook runs along the northern side of the site. The overburden and overlying post-medieval clay layer varied between 900mm and 3m in depth; this overlay a grey silt layer which alternated with layers of organic material and which was interpreted as a riverine deposit. In one trench it was attempted to bottom the medieval material but this was abandoned at 4.2m below the present street level. The brick culvert of Colman's Brook was also exposed but it was not possible to record its dimensions other than a minimum width of 2.4m.
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