County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Docklands, Sheriff Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0682
Author: Jo Ronayne, ADS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 717216m, N 734829m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.350679, -6.239390
Monitoring was carried out at Sheriff Street Lower, Docklands, Dublin 1. Monitoring of all ground disturbance took place between 28 June and 11 July 2006. Planning permission had been granted for the construction of a railway station on this site. A long area, c. 10m wide, north of Spenser Bridge was stripped and monitored. A depth of approximately 0.3–0.5m of grey clay material with stones was removed to put in a platform for the new station. Beneath this was a mixture of yellow/orange sandy clay with stones. Both layers contained modern ceramics, post-medieval building material, metal, glass bottles and shell and were disturbed by the construction of the old railway and the reclamation of land for the canal. The remains of a small post-medieval red-brick building were uncovered, as well as a part of the foundation wall for the bridge. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered during monitoring. The monitoring and recording of the removal of a part of the stone wall that borders the northern side of Sheriff Street was carried out in January 2007.
Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3
