County: Dublin Site name: Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 17E0387
Author: Thaddeus Breen, Seán Shanahan & Bríd Kirby; Shanarc Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Urban, post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 712488m, N 735929m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.361582, -6.309982
Archaeological test excavations were carried out on 23-24 August 2017, at Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7 on the site of a proposed residential development(planning application 2925/17).
The southern side of the site shares a stone boundary wall (Protected Structure No.6781) with the Phoenix Park deerpark (DU018-007024).
Eight test trenches were dug across the site. Three additional test trenches had originally been envisaged but could not be excavated because of ongoing use of a building and paved yard. Excavated test trenches measured 1.8-2.1m in width, 2.7-34m in length and 0.5-1.2m in depth.
The excavated ground proved to be garden soil with occasional refuse pits of relatively recent date. One structural feature was found: part of the foundation of a small building, probably a house, built in the 1890s and shown on the later 19th-century OS Maps.
The general stratigraphy of excavated material comprised c.0.4m of loose, dark brown topsoil with root disturbance, overlying disturbed yellow clay which sealed a grey silty natural.
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