County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 95–97 Francis Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0077
Author: Georgina Scally
Site type: Structure
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 714326m, N 734526m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.348587, -6.282884
Phase 1 of a pre-development test excavation was carried out inside the buildings at Nos 95–97 Francis Street, Dublin. Francis Street is located outside, to the south of, the medieval walled town. It is on the line of the Slige Chualann, one of the long-distance routes into the city from south Leinster during the Middle Ages (A. Simms, Medieval Dublin: A topographical analysis (1979), 30). Speed's map of Dublin (1610) depicts the street as lined with houses on both sides.
Three test-trenches were excavated, one by machine and the other two by hand. Foundations of three c. 19th-century walls were located but no finds or features of any archaeological significance were uncovered. Phase 2 of the test excavation is due to be carried out in 1998.
81 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4
