County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 126–133 James's Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0660
Author: Redmond Tobin, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 713822m, N 733958m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343594, -6.290653
The site is located on the north side of James’s Street and extends to within two properties of Steeven’s Lane. On the north side the site is bounded by a storage facility operated by Guinness, and on the east it extends as far as the boundary wall of St James’s churchyard. This church was a medieval foundation.
The proposed development on this site is designed to provide a residential complex with an extensive basement parking facility.
Work on this site by Margaret Gowen commenced in December 1999 (Excavations 1999, 70) and recommended further test-trenching. The work in 2000 was carried out under an extension to the original licence. This phase of trenching was to examine a wider portion of the site, once total clearance had taken place, to answer the questions raised in the preliminary assessment and to archaeologically resolve the site before development.
Five test-trenches were planned to assess the site. From the results of the test-trenches it is apparent that the subsurface interference, caused by the construction of a basement carpark, will not result in the removal of significant archaeological remains.
Residual remains of 18th-century and later buildings do survive below the ground. Their nature, layout and extent cannot be determined archaeologically as a result of the comprehensive demolition across the site in the course of site clearance. Any structural remains were completely removed at this time.
The finding of post-medieval artefacts on the site establishes a late 17th-century presence for the area, although no structural evidence of such was recorded.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
