County: Dublin Site name: SWORDS: 20 Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 11:34 Licence number: 02E0382
Author: Teresa Bolger, c/o Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 718156m, N 746842m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.458377, -6.220775
Monitoring of the excavation of foundations for an extension to the rear of 20 Main Street, Swords, Co. Dublin, was carried out in March–April 2002.
Before the development the site comprised a small two-storey house with a single-storey extension and a small outbuilding in a concrete yard. The two-storey building was to be retained. The original extension (4m by 2m) and outbuilding (3.5m by 1.5m) were demolished to make way for a new rear extension (10m by 2.5m). The foundation trench for this extension ran along the northern, western and southern edges of the site.
The southern section of the trench ran along the line of a post-medieval mortared stone wall, which had formed the plot boundary before its demolition. This trench was characterised by a compact, grey/yellow, sandy clay layer with frequent stones, similar to the lower layer noted in the other sections.
The remains of the foundation of a short section of mortared stone wall were noted in the western section of the foundation trench. This appeared to be the remains of the rear wall of the original plot, corresponding to the wall demolished along the southern boundary.
No archaeological material was noted in any part of the foundation trench.
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