County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 10–15 Green Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0382
Author: Claire Walsh, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 715158m, N 734705m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.350014, -6.270332
The site occupies five former properties on the east side of Green Street, Dublin 1.
The assessment was carried out on 16 December 1996 and consisted of the mechanical excavation of seven trenches. Two boreholes that were made for engineering purposes were also monitored while the assessment was being undertaken.
The trenches show that subsoil occurs between 1.8m and 2m below modern ground level. It consists of yellow boulder clay. At a deeper level subsoil consists of black sandy/gravelly clay. The boundary between these two strata was not encountered.
A layer of cultivated soil overlies subsoil. This varies from 0.3m to 0.8m but averages about 0.5m in thickness. Several sherds of 18th-century pottery were recovered from the soil, but no finds of an earlier date were recovered.
Large cellars up to 4.4m in depth occurred beneath the long building which stood on the Green Street frontage and beneath the building at the centre of the east side of the site. The construction of these buildings removed all earlier deposits to subsoil level.
Editor's note: This excavation, though carried out in 1996, was not reported on in time for inclusion in the bulletin of that year.
25a Eaton Square, Terenure, Dublin 6W
