County: Dublin Site name: 6 - 11 Hendrick Street, Dublin 7
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-020 Licence number: 17E0575
Author: Martin E. Byrne
Site type: No archaeological features uncovered
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714466m, N 734456m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.347926, -6.280812
The Grant of Planning to construct a 175 no. bedroom hotel, ranging in height from five to seven storeys over basement, required that the development site be subject to an Archaeological Impact Assessment, including a programme of testing.
The site is located within the Zone of Archaeological Potential established for Dublin and formed part of Oxmantown Green until the mid-eighteenth century when a terrace of over-basement houses were constructed on the site. These were subsequently demolished and the site split between two commercial structures, both of which were recently demolished.
A programme of testing, comprising the machine excavation of 9 trenches, determined that the site largely comprises infilled basements, the upper sections of which were, for the most part, previously removed and truncated by demolition and later constructions. The rear of the site, beyond the rear walls of the basements, is also disturbed by later foundations and services and the subsoil lies approx. 1.25m below recently removed floor-surface level Nothing of archaeological interest and/or potential was uncovered by the programme of archaeological testing.
Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
