2016:419 - 9, 11 & 13 Pembroke Street, Irishtown, Dublin, Dublin

It is proposed to construct a terrace of six residential units on a derelict site at 9, 11 and 13 Pembroke Street, Irishtown, Dublin. 4. The site is located within the Zone of Archaeological Potential associated with a pre-1700 settlement cluster at Irishtown, DU018:054. The site appears to have remained largely undeveloped and within an intertidal zone until at least the early 18th century when some land in the area was the subject of reclamation works. Although some development of such reclaimed lands was undertaken in the later 19th and early 19th century, cartographic evidence suggests that the area in the immediate environs of the site was developed in the early 19th century but that the site itself was not developed until at least the later 19th century when it formed part of a terrace of houses, a number of which were demolished in the late 20th century.

A programme of testing, comprising the machine excavation of 8 trenches, determined that the site comprises reclaimed ground/’made ground’ comprising miked gravel clay fills to depth of between 1.2 – 1.5m below existing ground level and that such material lies directly upon ‘natural’ sands and gravels. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered by the testing. 

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