County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 22–24 Strand Street Great
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1120
Author: Helen Kehoe, c/o Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 715529m, N 734352m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.346763, -6.264892
Planning permission was granted to erect a four-storey-over-basement building, consisting of offices over two ground-level retail units divided by an existing access laneway, which was retained. The site was to be assessed in two phases.
The northern boundary of the strand which encompasses the site earmarked for development generally followed the line of Little and Great Strand Streets. It is probable that the Strand Street name was given by Brooking in 1728, indicating the position of the high-tide shoreline before the strand ‘was taken in from the sea’. There was no evidence for any significant archaeological deposits within the trench opened as part of Phase 1. Examination of sections of the grey silt deposits yielded one clay pipe with few other inclusions. This silt may form part of the 17th/18th-century reclamation deposits known to have been built up in this area at that time.
Phase 2 of the assessment is scheduled for the latter part of 2002.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
