County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 156–158 Capel Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1025
Author: Helen Kehoe
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 716651m, N 734450m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.347397, -6.248002
The site consists of two four-storey buildings and one three-storey building, which front onto Capel Street (Nos 156–158 Capel Street) with a garden area to the rear. It was proposed to refurbish the houses and extend into the garden area. Capel Street was originally laid out for residential use in the 17th century. It formed part of a larger developmental scheme for the area initiated by Humphrey Jervis.
The site lies to the south of the probable location of St Mary’s Abbey, a Savigniac foundation of 1139 which became a Cistercian house in 1147. The site of the abbey buildings was close to the high-water shoreline of the Liffey.
There was no evidence for significant archaeological deposits located in the trenches opened. The initial 1.8m comprised demolition infill rubble over a more compact brown-grey silt which included fragmentary infill deposits.
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