County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 27 Long Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1455 and ext.
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Enclosure and Midden
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 715182m, N 733180m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.336313, -6.270526
Three test-trenches were excavated here in November 2002. These revealed a ditch at the northern end of the site and a mound of post-medieval dumped organic deposits, which contained some medieval material, in the eastern half of the site. The mound is clearly shown on Rocque’s 1756 map of Dublin.
The site was subsequently excavated between November 2002 and January 2003. Two sections were dug across the ditch, which is not to be disturbed by the development. These showed the ditch to be of medieval date, 5.5m wide and 2.5m deep. Medieval pottery and a piece of dressed Dundrystone were retrieved from its base. The ditch had been completely filled by the 18th century.
The mound of dumped deposits proved to be of late 17th-/early 18th-century origin, with dumping continuing into the late 18th/early 19th century. The material had evidently been removed from somewhere in the medieval town, as medieval pottery and sherds of decorated ceramic floor tiles were retrieved from it.
Two separate dumps of 18th- and 19th-century waste from clay-pipe production were also uncovered, but no structures relating to production were revealed.
27 Coulson Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin 6
