County: Dublin Site name: Cork Street & Chamber Street, Dublin 8
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-020 (Dublin City) Licence number: 18E0693
Author: Jon Stirland, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Site type: Building foundations, stone and brick culverts and a property boundary/garden plot wall.
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714481m, N 733349m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.337979, -6.280987
An archaeological assessment (test trenching) took place at the site of a proposed development at Cork Street and Chamber Street, Dublin 8 on 10 December 2018 and 5 February 2019.
The site consists of two areas, one located between Cork Street to the north and Chamber Street to the south and the other to the south-west, at the corner of Weavers’ Square and Chamber Street. A total of four test trenches were excavated within the two proposed development areas.
The proposed development is within the border of the Zone of Archaeological Constraint for DU018-020 (Dublin City). The site is also within the borders of the Zone of Archaeological Constraint for DU018-020358 (dwelling site) and DU018-020359 (dwelling site). Furthermore, the site is located on the border of the Zone of Archaeological Interest in the Dublin City Development Plan 2016–2022.
The test trenching identified the subsurface remains of building foundations, stone and brick culverts and a property boundary/garden plot wall, which appear to align with dwellings and property boundaries depicted on John Rocque’s 1756 map of the Suburbs and Environs of Dublin. These features were exposed at depths of between 0.2m and 0.44m below the current ground level. Preserved garden soils, most likely 17th–18th century in date, were also exposed at a depth of 0.66–0.8m below the current ground level. It is therefore possible that these features represent elements of structures associated with the gable fronted ‘Dutch Billy’-type buildings that originally occupied the site.
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