County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Marian Court, Queen Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: Urban Licence number: 99E0271
Author: Rob Lynch, IAC Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 714524m, N 734590m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.349119, -6.279889
Test-trenching was carried out on 22 June 1999. Four test-trenches were excavated within the carparking area to the east of Marian Court Flats, Queen Street, Dublin 7. The proposed development involved the amalgamation of 28 existing one-bedroom ground-floor units into 14 two-bedroom units and the construction of a corner shop at the junction of Queen Street and Blackhall Street. The area of Queen Street/Blackhall Street is within the zone of archaeological potential for medieval Dublin, as defined by the Urban Archaeological Survey. Queen Street was laid out in the mid-17th century. The church and graveyard of St Paul are to the north-west of the site. The graveyard is still in use.
The test-trenches revealed that no significant archaeological deposits or features were present on site. That stratigraphy exposed consisted of 18th-19th-century dumped material and backfilled cellars.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
