County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Cork Street/Ardee Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0716 ext.
Author: Redmond Tobin, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 714605m, N 733417m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.338567, -6.279098
This assessment was carried out on the yard occupied by the Dublin Corporation Housing Maintenance Department at the junction of Cork Street and Ardee Street, Dublin 8. The site is to be developed as a multifunctional building with underground car-parking facilities.
The site lies within the zone of archaeological potential around medieval Dublin but beyond the precinct of the medieval walled town, and some distance from the medieval core.
Access is limited by the presence and continued use of standing buildings. The location of these buildings in respect of the footprint of the proposed development only allowed for the opening of one test-trench on the southern side of the site. This assessment was carried out on 2 April 2001.
The results from the excavation of this trench would suggest a continuity of stratigraphy across the site from north to south. The stratigraphy recorded supports the evidence from the previous testing carried out by Alan Hayden in 1993 (Excavations 1993, No. 64, 93E0066). Subsoil occurred at between 0.9m and 1.1m. Above that was material predominantly 18th- to 19th-century in date.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
