County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 27–28 Long Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-141---- Licence number: 02E1455 ext.
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 715182m, N 733180m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.336313, -6.270526
The site was tested in November 2002 (Excavations 2002, No. 553). It was subsequently excavated between November 2002 and January 2003. Two sections were dug across a ditch at the north end of the site, which is not to be disturbed by the development. These showed the ditch to be of medieval date; it measured up to 5.5m in width and 2.5m in depth. Medieval pottery and a piece of dressed Dundry stone were uncovered from its base. The ditch was completely filled in by the 18th century.
A mound of dumped deposits on the south-east side of the site, which is shown on Rocque’s map of 1756, proved to be of later 17th/early 18th-century origin, with dumping continuing into the later 18th/early 19th century. The material had evidently been removed from somewhere in the medieval town, as medieval pottery and sherds of decorated ceramic floor tiles were uncovered from it.
Two separate dumps of 18th- and 19th-century waste from clay-pipe production were also uncovered, but no structures relating to production were revealed.
27 Coulson Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin 6
