2008:423 - 19 Magennis Place, Dublin, Dublin

The primary element of potential archaeological interest of the site at 19 Magennis Place, Dublin 2, concerned the post-medieval development of the area, and in particular its late 17th- and early 18th-century industrial heritage. The site of the glass manufactory (D018–020325), the centre of which is marked 60m to the south of the proposed development on the Archaeological Constraint Map, demonstrates that the land behind the route of Lazers’ Hill (now Townsend Street) was developed for industrial use from the end of the 17th century. Records indicate that glasshouses off Lazers’ Hill were operating from 1679, and glass possibly originating from these workshops was found by the late D.L. Swan in Templeogue House in Dublin (Excavations 1996, No. 144, 96E010).
Four small test-pits were investigated at this small development site. These demonstrated that no archaeological material was present on the site in the uppermost 1.5m below the existing floor level, and that the proposed development would have no archaeological impact. No glass was recovered from the site, and no trace was found of the glass manufactories that are recorded as having been present in the area.