County: Dublin Site name: 30 Stoneybatter, Dublin 7
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 13E0262
Author: Neil O'Flanagan
Site type: Post-Medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714353m, N 734765m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.350726, -6.282397
The site comprised a small house with yard facing Stoneybatter, a street whose name is believed to have been derived from Bothar Na gcloch, or the stoney road. Monitoring of the works in advance of refurbishment was carried out 17 October 2012. Two large sub surface trenches were examined and surveyed, and a visual inspection made of the ground floor of the structure. The trenches were dug on either side of the central chimney breast. The natural of light brown boulder clay was exposed 0.50m below the surface of the existing concrete floor slab. All the subsequent layers were of 19th to 20th century vintage. Of interest was a limited spread of limestone cobbles, set into the natural boulder clay, indicating the earlier existence of an exposed yard area, or entrance way into a rear yard. The alteration in structural features demonstrates the existence of a large entranceway way, presumably for the carriage of horses, into the rear yard.
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