County: Dublin Site name: DRUMCONDRA: All Hallows College, Griffith Avenue
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1021
Author: Claire Walsh
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 716325m, N 734826m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.350845, -6.252757
The site lies near the parish church of Drumcondra, which is probably built on the site of a medieval parish church. The church and enclosure are marked on Rocque’s 1756 map of County Dublin. Drumcondra House stood on the site where All Hallows College was founded in 1842. The house and gardens are marked on Rocque’s map and on Duncan’s map of 1821. The site was formerly a field and orchard of All Hallows College. It incorporates a walled farmyard.
Trenches were excavated by a mechanical digger fitted with a grading bucket. No archaeological material was uncovered from the test-trenches. There is no evidence for a medieval soil level at the site. No archaeological material is likely to be present on the site. The results are in accordance with the negative archaeological results from the other developments nearby in All Hallows and on Church Avenue.
25A Eaton Square, Terenure, Dublin 6W
