County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 124–127 St Stephen’s Green
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0850
Author: Teresa Bolger, c/o Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Well
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 715779m, N 733539m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.339407, -6.261422
A small excavation was carried out before development works at 124–127 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. John Ó Néill carried out an assessment of the site in September 2001 (Excavations 2001, No. 408), which identified a small well in the north-west quadrant. It was recommended that the well be fully recorded before the start of development works; this was carried out on 21 March 2002.
An area measuring 5m by 5m and centred on the location of the post-medieval well was opened in the north-west quadrant of the site. The well was sealed by a layer of grey/brown silty clay with a large quantity of rubble. It was truncated on the south side by the original test-trench and had partially collapsed in on itself.
The well comprised a steep-sided sub-oval cut into natural clay. This cut was lined with a drystone wall of rough, irregular, limestone blocks. The well was excavated to a depth of c. 0.5m and had been backfilled with compact, grey/black, gritty clay that produced glass and post-medieval pottery.
No other features were noted in the immediate vicinity, and all of the indications pointed to a post-medieval date for the well.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
