County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 61–63 Meath Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0110
Author: Mary McMahon (for Arch-Tech Ltd)
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 714682m, N 733659m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.340723, -6.277855
An archaeological assessment, involving the mechanical excavation of three test-trenches, was undertaken in advance of planning permission. The planned development involved the construction of a ground-floor shop and overhead apartments. The site lies outside the core of medieval Dublin but is in the vicinity of the 12th-century Augustinian Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr. Meath Street was developed between 1690 and 1710, and John Rocque's map of 1756 shows a fully developed street pattern in the area.
No archaeologically significant features or deposits were uncovered. The earliest evidence from the site was a body sherd of blackware, indicating possible late 17th- or 18th-century activity in the area.
77 Brian Road, Marino, Dublin 3
