County: Dublin Site name: MOUNT JEROME CEMETERY, Harold’s Cross
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-049 Licence number: 10E0189 ext.
Author: Judith Carroll
Site type: MONITORING
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 0m, N 0m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.324722, -6.284167
Groundworks relating to the development of a new car park at Mount Jerome cemetery, Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6, were monitored between 24 November 2011 and 6 January 2012. The site of the proposed development was situated along the avenue leading to the cemetery of Mount Jerome and the existing 18th/19th-century house which was once part of the estate at Mount Jerome. The new additional carparking facility was proposed to utilise a former yard which was once a stonemasons’ yard, but in more recent times was used as a dumping site. This yard was bounded by walls enclosing an area approximately 52m east-west by 29m on the west end and by 14.5m on the east end Within this yard, on its south-west corner - strangely unbounded, till the present development, by a wall or fence - was a small Muslim cemetery. There were no other buildings or upstanding features on the site.
A JCB was used to reduce the ground level and dig the foundation trenches for the new wall of the Muslim cemetery, and to reduce the ground level for the general area of the carpark. The digging work was monitored over five days, on 24 November and 13 December 2011 and 4-6 January 2012.
No finds or features of any archaeological significance came to light during the monitoring of works.
Plate 2: Photo looking east. Preparation of the site for deposition of stone of carpark. The Muslim cemetery is to the right.
Judith Carroll & Company Ltd, Consultant Archaeologists, 11 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
