County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 57 Middle Abbey Street/44–47 The Lotts
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0344
Author: Edmond O'Donovan, Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 715728m, N 734472m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.347797, -6.261847
A test excavation was carried out on a development site at 44–47 The Lotts and 57 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1. The site was made up of two distinct areas, a narrow plot of land fronting onto Middle Abbey Street and the larger rectangular unit backing onto the Lotts. The assessment was concerned with the Middle Abbey Street portion of the site, as this is the only area where a reduction in ground level was proposed.
Two test-trenches were opened in the basement of No. 57 Middle Abbey Street. No medieval or post-medieval archaeological deposits were encountered. A flagstone floor was revealed in both trenches, lying directly underneath the existing concrete floor. The flagstone floor overlay a deposit of soft mixed grey clay, containing sherds of 18th/19th-century pottery and red brick. The test-trenches reached a level c. 1.27m below the present basement level and were not bottomed to boulder clay, as a reduction of 0.45m was required by the development. No further archaeological work was required on the site.
Rath House, Ferndale Road, Rathmichael, Co. Dublin.
