County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Adelaide Hospital Site, Peter Street/Wood Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0043
Author: Helen Kehoe, c/o Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 715333m, N 733553m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.339630, -6.268125
This site was tested in two phases. Phase 1 was carried out in advance of planning permission before the demolition of extant buildings at the site, and Phase 2 was completed on grant of planning permission following building demolition. The site is outside the medieval walled town of Dublin, to the south of the River Poddle, and west of the suspected site of the medieval, Carmelite St Mary's Priory.
Seven trenches were mechanically excavated as part of Phase 1. No evidence of a significant archaeological nature was revealed during the first phase of testing. Two cesspits and two associated pottery sherds retrieved from them were post-medieval in date.
An additional six trenches were opened during Phase 2 of the assessment within the footprint of the demolished buildings. Each of the buildings had a basement that was built on natural, yellow clay. There was no evidence for any archaeological features within the trenches opened. It appeared that the excavation for the basements had removed all material down to natural clay, and therefore any possible in situ archaeology is likely to have been lost at this stage.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
