2000:0281 - DUBLIN: Palace Street, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Palace Street

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0632

Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.

Site type: Town defences

Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)

ITM: E 715452m, N 734041m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343987, -6.266161

The site measures a maximum of 40m east–west by 25m and consists of a small landscaped Millennium Park that occupies the north side of the block delimited by Palace Street on the east, Dame Street on the north and Exchange Alley to the west. The site lies immediately outside the medieval city wall, and the River Poddle crosses it and has done so since medieval times.

The landscape features could not all be removed, so test-trenching was severely restricted. Three small trenches were mechanically excavated in November 2000. Modern ground level varied from 6m to 6.85m OD. Subsoil was not reached in any of the trenches. The top of medieval water-deposited layers of organic silt, sand and gravel, containing leather fragments, twigs etc., was encountered at 2.85–3.15m OD, and these were at least 1m deep. The remainder of the profile consisted of cellars, which are of 19th-century date but which could include 17th- and 18th-century elements.

25A Eaton Square, Terenure, Dublin, 6W