County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier Street/Peter Row
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0499 ext.
Author: Linzi Simpson, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Graveyard
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 715335m, N 733469m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.338875, -6.268125
An emergency excavation was carried out in June 2001 after a monitoring programme revealed human remains in the north-west corner of the large construction site. The remains were immediately presumed to form part of a known Huguenot cemetery, attached to the chapel of St Peter. This chapel, which lay to the north of the site, was built as early as 1711, after the medieval church of St Peter was demolished. The chapel was then demolished in 1840, at which time the human remains were disinterred and reburied in Mount Jerome cemetery. The site under discussion originally lay within the graveyard but, owing to a shift in the southern boundary, became separated when a new wall was built 1.5m to the north in the late 19th century.
Only a small section of graveyard material survived in situ, measuring 2m north–south by 3m by 1m in depth. The partial remains of two articulated skeletons were found within this island, as well as one skull and numerous loose bones. Both skeletons were orientated east–west and lay within grave-cuts which produced 18th-century pottery sherds. The foundations of the new southern boundary wall, built in the late 19th century, were also located.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
