County: Dublin Site name: ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE, Drumcondra
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 18:12 Licence number: 98E0604
Author: Martin E. Byrne
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 715925m, N 736841m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.369038, -6.258022
A programme of archaeological trial-trenching was undertaken on 21 December 1998 for the Department of Education at the site of a proposed Education Centre in the grounds of St Patrick's Training College. The work was undertaken in compliance with conditions attached to the grant of planning in respect of the proposed development.
The area of development lies c. 100m south of the former Belvedere House, a 17th-century house with 18th/19th-century additions, which is now incorporated into the college. Three other sites of interest lie in the general environs of the development: Drumcondra House (SMR 18:14), an early Georgian house dating to c. 1725; a medieval church and graveyard site (SMR 18:13) associated with the Priory of All Saints and upon which the present St John the Baptist Church was erected in 1743; and a castle site dating to c. 1560. The first two sites lie in the College of All Hallows, and the last in St Joseph's School for Visually Impaired Boys.
Six trenches, ranging from 20m to 50m long, were mechanically excavated. No features were revealed, although two sherds of post-medieval pottery and a fragment of a possible 18th-century clay pipe bowl were recovered.
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