County: Dublin Site name: MEATH TERRACE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-20 Licence number: 11E0118
Author: Michael Tierney
Site type: Urban medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714623m, N 733741m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.341473, -6.278715
The client was required to have the extension to her house monitored during construction. The backyard was cleared of rubbish and rubble, followed by the removal of an extension to the main structure, a terraced house dating from the 1880s or 1890s. This old extension was sitting on an infill layer associated with the construction of Meath Terrace and this property. At the base of the foundation, and at an average depth of 0.45m, there was a clay layer that contained pottery dating from the 13th century. The nature and extent of the medieval layer could not be determined because it was not being disturbed apart from this initial exposure. The date of the pottery does, however, fit into the known dates for the expansion of Dublin to the west with the establishment of St Thomas’s Abbey.
Kilnaborris House, Kilnaborris, Banagher, Co. Offaly
