County: Dublin Site name: Liffey Street, Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-020 Licence number: 18E0564
Author: Kim Rice, Courtney Deery Heritage Consultancy
Site type: Urban post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715600m, N 734488m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.347967, -6.263777
Monitoring of preliminary investigations for the ‘Liffey Street Public Realm Improvement Works’, incorporated the excavation of eleven slit trenches to locate services in Liffey Street Upper and Lower, North Lotts and Strand Street Great. Liffey Street occurs within the ‘Zone of Archaeological Potential’ for the historic town of Dublin. In the medieval period the area occupied the lands to the east of the walled precinct of St Mary’s Abbey, and lay to the east-south-east of the suburb of Oxmantown. The area was developed by Humphrey Jervis (1630–1707) during the latter stages of the seventeenth century, when the lands were reclaimed from the estuarine mudflats of the River Liffey.
Numerous modern subsurface utilities were uncovered along Liffey Street Upper and Lower and North Lotts, consequently, the trenches were largely disturbed and contained deposits of hardcore, gravels, sands and lumps of cement. Seven of the slit trenches produced evidence for truncated nineteenth-century soils, while the trench on Strand Street Great incorporated stratified eighteenth- and nineteenth-century deposits. The remains of a nineteenth-century vaulted yellow brick cellar were identified on Liffey Street Upper and the upper section of a calp limestone wall was uncovered on Liffey Street Lower.
Lynwood House, Balinteer Rd., Dublin 16, D16 H9V6
