County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 63A and 63B Inchicore Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1622
Author: Rosanne Meenan, for Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Water mill - unclassified
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 712261m, N 733740m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.341970, -6.314156
The remains of an 18th-century mill and 20th-century warehouse building stood on this site, lying between the Inchicore Road and the Camac River. The remains of two dwelling-houses also stood along the bank of the river. All structures apart from the mill building were demolished to make way for apartment buildings, some of which will be built over a basement.
Ten trenches tested the available free ground. Two were excavated in the north-west corner, an area which had been disturbed by the construction of a petrol filling station; nothing of archaeological significance was exposed here. Three trenches tested the south-west corner. Massive dumping of modern building rubble was carried out here in the 1970s, when material was dumped along the south bank of the Camac as far west as the millpond east of Inchicore village. The rubble was up to 5m deep. One trench tested the north-east corner. This area was previously disturbed by insertion of an ESB cable and by excavation of an engineer’s test-trench. Evidence for dumping was exposed in this trench. Four trenches tested the south-east corner. A brick-built culvert was exposed in Trench 7, 2.6m wide at the base and semicircular in section. This ran north–south from the mill building; it appeared to run under the two now derelict dwelling-houses and presumably opened into the river. When opened, there was a layer of silt on the base and no water was present. In Trench 8 the remains of a probable drainage channel were exposed. This also ran north–south down to the river. It may have originated in the millrace, possibly taking access water from the race down to the river. Grey silts were present in this area, suggesting flooding here. The two other trenches exposed evidence for demolished walls associated with the mill and for extensive dumping in the 1970s.
Archaeological material was not exposed. No structural features were observed at the bottom of the trenches. Artefacts were not recovered from the material that was removed by machine from the bottom of the trenches.
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