County: Dublin Site name: John’s Lane East and Winetavern Street, Wood Quay, Dublin 8
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-020114; DU018-020134; DU018-020174, DU018-020077-, & Town Defences. Licence number: E005538
Author: Antoine Giacometti
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 715121m, N 734011m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343786, -6.271141
Twelve engineering slit trenches were excavated at John’s Lane East in September 2023, in the park directly behind the Dublin City Council offices at Wood Quay. The trenches were designed to inform the design of a proposed new park layout. The engineering slit trenches identified disarticulated human remains mixed into imported soil and nineteenth/twentieth-century demolition layers across the full park, as well as articulated human remains at a depth of 100mm within the former graveyard. Masonry wall foundations belonging to the west and south graveyard boundary walls and the west and south of the 1886 Mission Hall were also uncovered, and the western Mission Hall wall is probably the same as the 18th-century St John’s Church.
Archaeology Plan, 32 Fitzwilliam Place Dublin 2
