County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Lower Clanbrassil Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0333
Author: James Eogan, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 714903m, N 733034m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.335062, -6.274765
This site is to be developed as an apartment complex. It was a requirement of the planning permission that an archaeological assessment be carried out in advance of construction. This assessment was made on the basis of six test-trenches excavated using a mechanical digger.
Undisturbed natural was found to consist of gravelly clay in Trenches 1 and 2; a laminated clayey silt formed natural on the western part of the site, probably resulting from the periodic flooding of the River Poddle. The earliest recorded human activity on this site relates to the dumping of considerable amounts of rubbish and fill in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. This was probably an effort to raise ground levels on the site, which to this day has a high water-table. Evidence was also uncovered for the use of the site as a scavenging yard in the mid-19th century.
In view of the post-medieval date for the earliest activity on the site and the lack of associated structural remains, no further archaeological excavation was recommended in advance of construction.
Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3
