County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Fish Market, St Mary’s Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0708
Author: Emmet Stafford for IAC Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 715030m, N 734466m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.347895, -6.272340
Five test-trenches were excavated, using a mechanical excavator fitted with a toothless bucket, within the confines of a carpark situated to the north of Dublin Corporation’s fish market. This work was undertaken on various dates between 17 September and 3 October 2001.
Many basements had been built on the site in the 18th and 19th centuries. They cut into the natural gravels and nothing of prehistoric or medieval date was uncovered on the site.
At the northern end of Trench 1, which was at the extreme western edge of the site, a substantial stone wall was uncovered. This wall, which appeared to pre-date the early modern basement walls, appeared to enclose a large area measuring 11.6m north–south. Although the deposits surrounding this wall contained red brick and other modern/post-medieval artefacts, these layers represented the final burial of the wall, which may have had a significantly earlier construction date.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
