County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Parkgate Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0188
Author: Eoin Halpin, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 713126m, N 734326m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.347049, -6.300966
Testing took place on 16 and 17 April 1998. Five trenches were machine-excavated, down to undisturbed natural where possible, without revealing anything of archaeological significance. At the extreme east end of the site, a subsurface layer of 0.3m-thick concrete was uncovered. This precluded close examination of the layers in this area; however, the evidence from the other trenches nearby strongly suggested that nothing of significance survived in this area.
The results suggest that beneath the present surface and associated hard-core post-medieval layers lie directly on natural riverine silts and clays. In the south-western corner over 2.5m of made ground lies directly on river gravels.
Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered during the assessment.
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