County: Dublin Site name: Clarendon Row, Dublin 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 22E0036
Author: Antoine Giacometti
Site type: 18th-century industrial
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715699m, N 733689m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.340768, -6.262583
A programme of archaeological monitoring took place in Clarendon Row in January and February 2022 as part of a Dublin City Council project to repave Clarendon Row and install a new water main and rainwater gullies along the west footpath. Archaeological features identified were recorded and where possible preserved in situ.
Four former coal cellars were identified during the works, and the remains of further demolished cellars were identified by the presence of brick demolition rubble deposits.
These cellars were originally constructed for the storage of coal and other goods. They are typical of later seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth-century Dublin architecture, whereby each townhouse had between one and three coal cellars which were generally located beneath the footpath separated from the main building by an insulating passage. The coal cellars were accessed from the house via doorways opening into the insulating passage and were accessed from the street by a coal hole which was sealed by a cast iron cover. The latter was often set into the pavement within a granite surround, many examples of which survive along Dublin’s streets.
Archaeology Plan, 32 Fitzwilliam Place Dublin 2
