County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Penny’s CarPark, Parnell Street/Jervis Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0227
Author: Claire Walsh
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 715414m, N 734682m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.349752, -6.266498
Test excavation of a development site was undertaken on 15 March 2001. A further trench was excavated on 12 April. The site had been used as the carpark for the adjacent store and had been derelict for some time. Planning permission has been granted for a mixed-use building with basement carpark.
The site is located close to the northern precinct of St Mary’s Abbey, as depicted by Speed. No medieval deposits have yet been uncovered in this part of the city, and it appears that the systematic demolition of St Mary’s Abbey, coupled with the determined redevelopment of the area from the late 17th century onwards, has removed all traces of an earlier medieval estate.
No features of archaeological interest remain on this site. A large pit, probably for quarrying, was encountered in the central part of the site. The 18th-century buildings which occupied the Jervis Street frontage had deep, brick-filled cellars, and no features were encountered.
25A Eaton Square, Terenure, Dublin 6W
