County: Dublin Site name: 32i Macken Street, Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 18E0202
Author: Caitríona Moore
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 717119m, N 734048m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343688, -6.241127
The site was located within the rear plot of a property fronting Pearse Square, on sloblands reclaimed after 1713. Groundworks in advance of construction removed soils to a maximum depth of 0.9m around the site perimeter and 0.5m in the centre. Exposed deposits comprised loose mixed garden soil containing material of late 19th- and early 20th-century date including a clay pipe bowl with the stamp of the United Trades Association Dublin. The remains of a north-south running limestone wall were located across the eastern boundary of the site. This is likely the original back garden wall dating from when the site was still the rear plot of a property fronting onto Pearse Square. A red brick lined drain ran east-west through the centre of the site.
Archaeology and Built Heritage, Spade Enterprise Centre, St. Paul's Smithfield, Dublin 7
