County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 29 Bridgefoot Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0409
Author: John Ó Néill, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: House - 17th/18th century
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 714493m, N 734194m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.345569, -6.280498
An assessment was carried out at the site of proposed development at 29 Bridgefoot Street, which required the excavation of a number of trenches across the site. The trenches were opened in a courtyard that opens onto Bridgefoot Street and is currently in use as a private carpark. The area of Bridgefoot Street does not appear to have been developed prior to Francis Place’s 1698 line drawing ‘View of Dublin from the wooden bridge’, although it is shown on Brooking’s map of 1728 and named as ‘Dirty Lane’ by Rocque in 1756.
Two engineering test-pits and two boreholes were monitored on the site by Tim Coughlan, and two trenches were subsequently opened by the writer. Basements were present on the site to a depth of 2.25m (around 3.15m OD). These were dug into reclamation deposits overlying naturally deposited silts and clays between 2.1m and 2.6m OD.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
