1999:274 - SWORDS: Bridge Street, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: SWORDS: Bridge Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: O179472
Licence number: 99E0320
Author: Eoin Halpin, ADS Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ
Site type: Quarry
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 718099m, N 746940m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.459266, -6.221598
An initial phase of site assessment works uncovered a stone-cut feature, possibly a ditch associated with the Swords Castle defences. Environmental contamination, in the form of seeping oil and raw sewage, necessitated a site-specific finds-retrieval and section-recording exercise, the results of which proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that the feature is a product of mid-19th-century stone quarrying.