County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Church Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0504
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure and Building
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 714798m, N 734341m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.346823, -6.275867
The site measured 50m north–south by 100m and was located on the west side of Church Street, to the rear of Nos 161–168, fronting onto Nos 3–14 Hammond Lane to the south. The site was partly occupied by standing buildings (the 20th-century former offices and stores of the Maguire and Patterson match manufacturers). There were two iron foundries, the Hammond Lane Foundry and the North City and Eagle Foundry, on the site in the 19th and early 20th centuries; both may have origins in the 18th century.
Four mechanically excavated trenches were opened in July 2000. Modern ground level on the site varied between 3.8m and 5m OD. Subsoil was reached at 1–2m OD (sloping down from east to west). Two medieval ditches, cut into subsoil and filled with organic silt, crossed the site on east–west lines. The northernmost of the pair is likely to mark the southern boundary of the property occupied by St Michan’s Church. A 1–1.4m-thick deposit of cultivated soil overlay the ditches and subsoil in the parts of the site where cellars were absent. The remainder of the profiles uncovered consisted of cellars.
25A Eaton Square, Terenure, Dublin 6W
