County: Dublin Site name: HOWTH: Abbey Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1041
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 728678m, N 739131m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.386655, -6.065576
Monitoring was carried out at 14B Abbey Street, Howth, on 22 September 2005. Testing was requested prior to the construction of a townhouse, as the site is within the buffer zone for a number of monuments (SMR 15:29 ecclesiastical remains, SMR 15:30 dwelling, SMR 16:2 possible motte site and Martello tower, SMR 16:4 dwelling site).
The area to be monitored consisted of a modern concrete surface overlying sand. After the removal of the concrete surface, eight pad foundations were excavated to depths of 0.6–1m; all eight were dug through a mottled orange/grey sand, with occasional inclusions of modern building debris, in the area alongside the extant buildings at the northern edge of the site. No features of archaeological significance were revealed.
Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3
