County: Dublin Site name: ST BRIGID’S NATIONAL SCHOOL, THE COOMBE, DUBLIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1780 EXT.
Author: Claire Walsh, 27 Coulson Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Site type: Urban medieval, post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714882m, N 733446m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.338767, -6.274931
Excavation took place over a six-week period on this site adjacent to St Luke’s Church, The Coombe. The earliest level showed a series of shallow ditches, which extended parallel to the slope towards the Coombe Stream. These were filled with a medieval agricultural soil and were probably field boundaries. A substantial ploughsoil had accumulated towards the base of the slope.
Post-medieval deposits on the site included the incomplete ground plans of late 17th-century structures, 18th-century walls and the furnaces of a mid-19th-century foundry which last occupied the site.
