County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Hill Street/Parnell Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0351
Author: Helen Kehoe, c/o Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 715951m, N 735177m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.354080, -6.258242
An archaeological assessment was completed at a development site at the corner of Hill Street and Parnell Street, Dublin 1. The site lies outside the medieval town of Dublin and outside the city as depicted on Rocque's Map (1756). Parnell Street and Hill Street were laid out in the latter half of the 18th century. St George's Church, constructed in 1719 on Hill Street, was demolished in 1894. Only the tower remains standing. The site on which it stood is now a playground, the southern end of which borders the development site.
Three trenches were excavated by mechanical digger. The stratigraphy was uniform and identical within the trenches opened, consisting of recent building rubble and cellar remains overlying a compact, light brown, stony natural. There was no evidence of archaeological features/finds.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
