County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 185–203 Merrion Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0886
Author: Redmond Tobin, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 719621m, N 730816m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.314098, -6.204800
The area required assessment because of its association with and proximity to four recorded monuments. The four sites listed are all components of the complex that centred on the site of Merrion Castle. The assessment was necessary to ascertain whether any archaeological material will be disturbed in the course of the development. These sites are: SMR 23:00101, ‘Tower-House Site’; 23:00102, ‘Dwelling Site’; 23:00103, ‘Armorial Stone’; and 23:00104, ‘Stone Head’. From an extant archaeological viewpoint only the last two components are still evident on the site, displayed in the wall of Fitzwilliam Hall.
Three trial-trenches did not yield any features or artefacts of archaeological significance. This would suggest that this area, while adjacent to the castle, was not in contemporary use. However, some fragments of post-medieval pottery were noted in the spoilheaps, which might relate to the latest occupation of the castle. This material cannot be accurately provenanced as it was spread at this location from earlier excavations and developments within the St Mary’s complex.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
