County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 17–18 Robert Street South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1845
Author: Kevin Lohan, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: House - 19th/20th century
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 714101m, N 733630m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.340589, -6.286584
Testing was carried out on the development site at 17–18 Robert Street South between 27 November and 1 December 2003. Three trenches were excavated by mechanical excavator. Each was 1.5m in width and 13–16m in length. The trenches uncovered a number of 19th-century structures and deposits.
In the eastern portion of the site, fronting onto Robert Street, were the remains of a terrace of late 19th/early 20th-century cottages. These cottages were the last episode of development on the site before it became derelict and are shown on the 1925 edition of the OS maps. Running north–south across the centre of the site were the remains of a substantial masonry wall. This correlates with the boundary wall shown on the first-edition OS map, when the site was originally in two plots. To the west of this wall, there was no evidence of any structures. Over the entire site there were land reclamation deposits to a depth of 2.8m below the current ground surface (16.425m OD). These land reclamation deposits contained 18th- and 19th-century pottery.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
