County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Oxmantown Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 18:020310 and 18:020185 (vicinity of) Licence number: 99E0494
Author: Dermot Nelis, IAC Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 714380m, N 734493m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.348280, -6.282080
The development site was within a zone of archaeological interest as outlined for Dublin in the Sites and Monuments Record. The name Oxmantown comes from Ostmantown, a place where the Anglo-Normans compulsorily resettled the Vikings living in the city. A Viking settlement stretched north of the River Liffey to King Street and Smithfield. In 1635, together with College Green and St Stephen's Green, the area of Oxmantown Green was to be 'kept for the use of the citizens to walke and take the open air by reason this cittie is at present growing very populous'. In the second half of the 17th century the area was becoming popular, with the building of King's Hospital, an open-air market and fashionable houses.
The monitoring of three 8-inch piles was carried out on 1 and 2 September 1999. Monitoring failed to reveal the presence of archaeological material and showed c. 1m of made ground sealing natural geology.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
