County: Dublin Site name: RINGSEND: Thorncastle Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0744
Author: Redmond Tobin, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 717942m, N 734160m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.344506, -6.228735
Testing took place on a disused factory premises that closed down around 1983. The site is bounded on the north by the River Liffey and by York Road. It is bounded on the west by the confluence of the River Dodder with the Liffey and the lock system joining the Grand Canal to the Liffey. It is bounded on the east by Thorncastle Street.
The development involves the demolition of the factory premises and the erection of a multi-storey building with basement carparking facilities. The testing was required because the site lies on the periphery of Ringsend village, and it sought to establish any adverse impacts on any archaeological remains that may occur on the site.
The standing buildings on the site made it difficult to assess the site fully. Five test-trenches, previously opened by engineers on the site, were reopened to examine the stratigraphy and nature of the subsoil. Safety requirements precluded the digging of certain trenches on the inland portion of the site. The engineers’ trenches were extended where necessary. All of the trenches yielded predominantly early modern stratigraphic deposits.
The stratigraphy indicates activity on the site but mainly relating to reclamation and subsequent industrial activity. All of the evidence, archaeological and historical, places the activity securely in the 18th to early 20th centuries.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
