County: Dublin Site name: ST CLARE’S FOLD, GRIFFITH AVENUE, DUBLIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 14:72 Licence number: 05E1194
Author: Cia McConway, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3.
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 693070m, N 738025m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.384192, -6.600982
Monitoring of groundworks associated with a development of residential units and a healthcare facility at St Clare’s Fold, Glasnevin, was carried out in October 2005.
Approximately 1m of loose topsoil mixed with patches of redeposited subsoil and large amounts of modern building debris and other refuse was removed by mechanical digger. This topsoil overlay a pale yellowish clay subsoil, which was cut by several narrow linear features which were visible running across the site from south-west to north-east and from north to south. These features measured between 0.3 and 0.6m in width and were filled with light to mid-brown loose silty soils in which a number of sherds of post-medieval to early modern pottery as well as other material such as clay-pipe stems and glass sherds were visible. Narrow test-slots were excavated through the fills of four of these features, which revealed that they were between 0.16 and 0.18m in depth with gently sloping sides and flattish bases. It was apparent that these features were cultivation/
ploughmarks of post-medieval to modern date.
No evidence for archaeological activity of medieval or earlier date was revealed.
