County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 5–7 Ellis Quay
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0410
Author: John Ó Néill, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Building
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 714446m, N 734340m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.346891, -6.281150
Four trenches were opened as part of an assessment of a site at 5–7 Ellis Quay. Standing remains are present across much of the site, and the trenches were excavated in the accessible portion of the site, which fronted onto Ellis Quay itself. The basements of the two houses, which had stood at either end of the development block, lay open and contained bracing for standing buildings on either side. The assessment was confined to the available portion in the centre of the site.
Two of the trenches were orientated east–west, and two north–south. These revealed that the basements had been built on top of a layer of gravel. These basements had been inserted into reclamation deposits, which were set down sometime after Francis Place’s drawing ‘View of Dublin from the wooden bridge’, which shows Ellis Quay under construction in 1698. The reclamation deposits bottomed out at 3.5m below the modern ground surface.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
