County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 16 Eustace Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0423
Author: Linzi Simpson, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burial ground
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 715550m, N 734176m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.345178, -6.264641
The site is located in Temple Bar (outside the medieval walled town of Dublin) in an area that was actively reclaimed from the early 17th century onwards. An emergency excavation was carried out after the relaying of a pipe in the basement of an 18th-century building exposed disturbed human remains. The remains consisted of eleven skulls, thirteen lower mandibles and eighteen neck vertebrae. At least four of the skulls displayed evidence of severe trauma in the form of cuts and slashes. The remains are probably associated with the execution by beheading of felons in Dublin sometime after 1600. The heads may have been displayed on the city walls as no remains of the decapitated bodies were found.
Rath House, Ferndale Road, Rathmichael, Co. Dublin
