County: Dublin Site name: ISLANDBRIDGE: 765 South Circular Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1471
Author: Claire Walsh
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 712562m, N 734293m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.346873, -6.309443
Testing was carried out on the site of the former Wyeth Chemical Stores at Islandbridge, Dublin 8, on 30 September 2002. Large, late 18th-century industrial buildings on the site are to be retained. The site lies on the south bank of the River Liffey, to the north of the Viking cemeteries uncovered in the late 19th/early 20th century. The island appears to have been the site of a mill since at least the 12th century. The location of the medieval mill/s was at the upper end of the mill headrace, that is, on or close to the present development site.
Three trenches were excavated using a machine fitted with a toothed bucket. Pottery from the 17th and 18th centuries was recovered from a deposit of organic soil in one trench; otherwise, the only deposits were of rubble and foundations that correspond with buildings on the OS maps. Further testing is to be undertaken in 2003.
27 Coulson Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin 6
