County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 58–66 Parnell Street/Moore Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0357
Author: Edmond O'Donovan, Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 715647m, N 734862m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.351317, -6.262920
The test excavation uncovered a number of house walls from buildings that originally fronted onto O'Rahilly Parade, Moore Street and Parnell Street. The street front at O'Rahilly Parade and Moore Street has remained constant since the 18th century; however, Parnell Street has been significantly widened, and the 18th-century street front is now under the present street.
The basement foundations and cellars found in Trenches 3, 6 and 7 all belonged to buildings constructed in the 18th and 19th century that fronted onto O'Rahilly Parade and Moore Street. It is clear from the early cartographic sources that buildings were present on some portions of the site by the middle of the 18th century. The foundations revealed in Trenches 2 and 8 adjacent to Parnell Street were substantially later and dated from the 20th century.
The deposits in the centre of the site consist of accumulations of 18th- and 19th-century rubbish deposited at the rear of the street-front properties. The china and delph identified in the trenches were contemporary with the buildings on the site, consisting largely of Willow Pattern painted vessels (19th century), although a single sherd of an early 18th-century mug was identified in Trench 6.
No medieval archaeological deposits were recorded in any of the test-trenches. No trace of any medieval structures (such as St Mary's Abbey precinct wall) was identified on the development site.
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