2014:592 - Bridge House, 1-2, John Street, Dingle, Kerry

Test excavation was undertaken with regard to a planning application to develop a cultural centre at Bridge House, 1-2 John Street, Dingle, Co. Kerry. Bridge House is a Protected Structure, Reg. No. 21400618. The overall proposed development site comprises c.0.39ha, situated within the limits of the medieval town of Dingle, KE043-224. Eight 1m wide test trenches (T1-T8), comprising a total of c. 350m in length, were excavated across the entirety of the open garden area of the site. Two short trenches, T1 and T2, were opened to investigate the possible presence of the medieval town wall. Both test trenches proved archaeologically sterile. The testing results from trenches T3-T6 also proved to be archaeologically negative with only a few 19th-century stone or re-used brick-lined drains discovered while the artefacts recovered appear to reflect the post-medieval or early modern period. A line of walling discovered in T7 most likely reflects the remains of an L-shaped structure denoted on both editions of the 19th-century OSi maps. The subsurface remains of an early 19th-century rectangular structure and associated cobbling, two drains and a sump were uncovered in T8.

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