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, 19th-century houses, river silts
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 716972m, N 734257m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.345590, -6.243266
The excavation progressed to preserving by record the early 18th-century north-south river/dyke wall, which was constructed by Sir John Rogerson as part of his reclamation works in the 1710's and which, for a brief period of time, formed the end of the quays in Dublin City. The structure was situated to the east of the terrace of Dutch Billy houses excavated under this licence in 2018.
The river wall was >2.6m in height and 1.3m in width, constructed of square-cut quarried stone facing both sides with a rubble core.
The wall appears on Brooking's Map of Dublin (1728) as already having been superceded by further reclamation of the strand to the east. Later 18th-century structures (brick-built cellars) and 19th-century structures (terrace of cottages) were excavated on the eastern side of the former river wall, which had evolved by that point to become a property boundary.
C/O Archaeology and Built Heritage, Spade Enterprise Centre, St. Paul’s Smithfield, North King Street, Dublin 7
