County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 1 Arran Street East
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0234
Author: Rosanne Meenan, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 715208m, N 734258m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.345989, -6.269744
The site is located on the north side of the River Liffey, at the south end of Arran Street East in an area of 17th-century land reclamation. The developer was required to carry out an assessment of the site before commencement of construction. Three trenches tested the site.
Trench 1 had to be abandoned as live sewage pipes were exposed and there was no room to work between them. Trenches 2 and 3 suggested that there had been a shallow basement, 1.5m deep, into which loose demolition rubble had been dumped. A fine, black soil underlay the rubble. It produced late 18th/19th-century pottery. Loose stones with some brick in a soft grey silty clay were exposed at the bottom of the two trenches; these may have represented part of the land reclamation that was carried out in the mid–late 17th century along the riverfront.
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