County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 59–64 South Great George's Street (Rear of)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0710
Author: Linzi Simpson, Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd.
Site type: Church, School and House - 20th century
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 715513m, N 733864m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.342384, -6.265310
The site is located outside the medieval walled town of Dublin, in the south-eastern suburb. It contains four buildings that lie to the rear of street—a Methodist church, a 19th-century hall (attached to the church on the south side), a Georgian schoolhouse (which incorporates the remains of a pre-Georgian building at basement level) and a 20th-century dwelling.
The assessment established that most of the hall and the western end of the church were cut into subsoil, with no archaeological levels surviving. In the remaining areas, a general deposit of grey silt, the upper levels of which could be dated to the 17th century and which was sealed by 2.5m of rubble, was noted. In addition to the rubble deposits, two phases of post-medieval wall foundations were identified at the eastern end of the church, which survived to 0.4–1m in height. The primary phase could be related to domestic buildings depicted on Rocque’s map of Dublin, dated 1756, while the secondary phase probably dated to the late 18th/early 19th century. The standing remains of a pre-Georgian domestic redbrick house, with triangular fireplaces, were located in the basement of the Georgian schoolhouse: this is to be retained in the new development.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road, Glenageary Lower, Co. Dublin
