County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 14–16 Newmarket Street/48–50 Newmarket
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1692
Author: Abi Cryerhall, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 714818m, N 733406m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.338422, -6.275906
The excavation of engineering test-pits was monitored on a proposed development site at Newmarket, Dublin 8. The site lies just outside the medieval walled city. As the city expanded in the 17th century, the area around Newmarket developed primarily as an industrial area, with tanning and clay-pipe production as the main industries.
Archaeological deposits were present in all three test-pits. Two layers of garden soils were recorded. In the first layer, which comprised dark green/brown, compact clay, one sherd of local 13th-century pottery was recovered. Above this was a brown clay with inclusions of animal bone and some brick fragments. The archaeological deposits were recorded, and the information will be used in the forthcoming assessment of the site.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
