County: Dublin Site name: Arran Street West/Smithfield Square South, Dublin 7
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 15E0074
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates
Site type: 17th- & 18th-century deposits
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714588m, N 734357m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.347010, -6.279016
Monitoring of ground reduction works associated with the construction of a mixed-use development at Arran Street West/Smithfield Square South, Dublin 7 was undertaken in compliance with the Grant of Planning. The general bulk excavations across the site resulted in the removal of rubble fills. The deepest excavations, associated with an attenuation tank and two lift shafts, indicated that such rubble fills had a depth of up to 1.85m across the site, below which was a layer of moderately compact black silty clay, with occasional stone material dispersed randomly throughout. No subsurface features of archaeological interest were recovered.
However, a number of artefacts, including pottery sherds, ceramic structural material and clay tobacco pipes, were recovered. Although two of the artefacts (pottery sherds) were of medieval date, the remainder were of post-medieval date, with the greater number dating to the 17th and early 18th centuries. Such material, in the main, was retrieved from the basal black silty clay layer, indicting that this may have been formed at this time.
7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
