2016:655 - 14–5 Wexford Street/Protestant Row, Dublin 2, Dublin

Monitoring of a site bounded by 14–5 Wexford Street to the west, and Protestant Row to the north, uncovered evidence for two 18th-century capillary-action pump wells. The dry stone wells were comparable in form and function, and were constructed from quarried blocks of calp limestone and fragments of hand-fired red brick. Both of the wells were partially filled with water, while their shafts included large sub-square wooden posts, that represented the wells' capillary pump. The northernmost well was preserved in situ; however, the southern well was excavated and this demonstrated that the base of the pump was inserted into a wooden cylindrical baseplate. It is probable that both wells went out of use when piped water was introduced to the city in the eighteenth century. The investigations also revealed the remains of a 19th-century lime pit in the south-east corner of the site, which was backfilled with crushed red brick, lime mortar and yellow sand.

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