2017:858 - DUBLIN: Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: DUBLIN: Blackhorse Avenue
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 17E0387
Author: Thaddeus Breen, Seán Shanahan & Bríd Kirby; Shanarc Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 39a, Hebron Business Park, Hebron Road, Kilkenny
Site type: Structure
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
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.
