2017:440 - Rear of Nos 26, 27, 28 and 29 New Row South, Dublin 8, Dublin

Archaeological testing undertaken in advance of both commercial and residential development at New Row South and Fumbally Lane, Dublin 8.
The remains of a complete limestone-built basement of a Dutch Billy terrace, facing onto the eastern side of New Row South, was located underneath the extant twentieth-century warehouse at 0.65m below present ground level (PGL). The southern portion of the terrace (DU018-020350) consisted of two rooms with red brick arched corner fireplaces, a return at the back of the house and a back yard area with a timber and mortar floor. An extensive cobbled back yard associated with the terrace, sloping towards the River Poddle, was also located approximately 1m below PGL. The houses recorded on New Row South as a result of testing represent the late seventeenth/early eighteenth-century Dutch Billy terrace as portrayed on Rocque's map of 1757, 1847 OS mapping and early twentieth-century photographs.
Remains of nineteenth-century distillery building were unearthed in the form of culverts used to control the flow of water under the distillery; walls associated with the building and floor levels consisting of granite slabs and cobbled surfaces. The building of the distillery and the twentieth-century factory in the western corner of the site necessitatedthe destruction of the Dutch Billy terrace to ground floor level, with the remains of the earlier
houses used to raise ground level in the back yards of the Dutch Billys and fill in their basement levels, which are still present on the site at 20mm to 0.6mm below PGL.

Archaeology and Built Heritage, Spade Enterprise Centre, St. Paul’s Smithfield, North King Street, Dublin 7