County: Dublin Site name: FAIRVIEW: Crescent Place
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0922
Author: Sinclair Turrell, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 718006m, N 736546m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.365925, -6.226884
Monitoring of construction groundworks took place at 22 Crescent Place, at the rear of 22 Marino Crescent, Fairview, during 13 and 14 September 2006. No. 22 Marino Crescent is part of an 18th-century terrace and is a protected structure in the current Dublin City Council Development Plan. The development site was previously occupied by a single-storey concrete workshop and is located immediately to the north of the zone of archaeological potential for DU018–067 (classified as ‘burials’).
Four foundation trenches in a rectangular grid were dug within the site with a mini-digger equipped with a toothless bucket. A dark-brown/grey garden soil was noted beneath the concrete floor surface. The subsoil consisted of a malleable mid-brown silty clay. Along the eastern and western boundaries of the site were found calp-limestone garden wall foundations. Examples of 19th- and early 20th-century household waste were recovered from the garden soils.
No archaeological features, deposits or artefacts were discovered during the course of the excavation of the four foundation trenches.
Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3
