2003:0599 - DUBLIN: 1 Hoey’s Court, Werburgh Street, Dublin

This important site (24m east–west by 21m) is located within the medieval walled town of Dublin, on the southern side, bounded by an extant section of the city wall on the southern side (visible from Ship Street Little). Werburgh Street, a medieval street, forms the boundary on the west and this originally had a mural gate tower, part of which may have extended onto the site. The 17th-century galleried church and medieval graveyard of St Werburgh (on the site of a medieval church) lies a short distance to the north and the site of St Martin’s Church and a prison is somewhere in the vicinity. The assessment established that there was at least one intact early 18th-century cellar on the eastern side of the site, but there are deep rubble deposits along the street frontage 1.7–3m in depth. The cellars were cut directly into medieval soils consisting of dark-brown organic deposits, which can probably be identified as the remains of Hiberno-Norse habitation. The test-trenches extended to the top of these levels only, but they can be estimated to be between 2.5 and 3m in depth. Further work is expected on the site.

2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin