County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 31–32A Gloucester Street South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0738
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 716433m, N 734328m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.346349, -6.251319
Planning permission for construction of a mixed-use development at this site required an impact assessment, to include testing. The site is located outside the zone of archaeological potential established for Dublin city. Research indicates that the site was located within the former flood-plain of the River Liffey, close to the shoreline. The area was subsequently reclaimed in the early 18th century, although there is no cartographic evidence that the site was developed at least until the early 19th century. In addition, testing undertaken by the writer in the adjacent site to the east did not uncover anything of archaeological interest (Excavations 2004, No. 591, 04E1496).
Testing, which comprised the machine excavation of three trenches, uncovered a layer of reclamation rubble fill across the site. This is up to 2.2m in thickness, below which was organic material interspersed with lenses of sand. Such material was naturally deposited by the river, particularly during times of high tides and flooding.
7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
