County: Dublin Site name: Lime Street, Dublin 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 16E0620
Author: James Kyle
Site type: Land reclamation, early 18th-century houses
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 716972m, N 734257m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.345590, -6.243266
The basement levels of four early eighteenth-century gabled houses, fronting onto Sir John Rogerson's Quay, were excavated by Niall Colfer in February and March 2018 under Licence 16E0620, after the upstanding buildings were demolished. As a part of the ongoing archaeological monitoring of remaining excavation works in 2018, a substantial north-south wall was uncovered close to the site’s eastern boundary. This was the wall constructed by Rogerson which, for a period at least, acted as a slip or berth running off perpendicular to the river.
This feature has not been mapped however the wall appears to have been depicted by Brooking in 1728, demarcating the eastern limit of development on the polder, where it is also depicted on Scalé’s 1773 revision of Rocque’s map and on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey.
The wall is referred to in a 1720 memorial drawn up between John Rogerson and Thomas Vicars of Queen’s County as delineating that part of the strand ‘taken in’ by Rogerson from the unreclaimed area further east. By July 1722 Vicars had constructed four of the houses excavated under 16E0620 by Niall Colfer and was about to commence the remaining three.
Works on site were suspended in July 2018 due to a re-application for planning permission for the development due to redesign.
C/O Archaeology and Built Heritage, Spade Enterprise Centre, St. Paul’s Smithfield, North King Street, Dublin 7
