2024:321 - School Street and Thomas Court Bawn, Dublin 8, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: School Street and Thomas Court Bawn, Dublin 8
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-020-051
Licence number: 24E0418
Author: Antoine Giacometti
Author/Organisation Address: Archaeology Plan, 32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 714349m, N 733697m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.341133, -6.282842
A programme of archaeological test-trenching and monitoring of engineering trial holes and was carried out at Thomas Court Bawn for two weeks from 28 May to 7 June 2024. The work was carried out in order to inform the design of a proposed new Dublin City Council social housing development at this location.
The testing and monitoring programmes have assessed the upper part of the surviving post-medieval horizons and found these to be extensive, and survive across most of the site from between c. 500mm to c. 2.6m below the ground and consist of a c. 18th-century tannery overlain by c. 19th-century structures. The base of these deposits was not reached. The medieval horizon, including the abbey precinct boundaries and any potential medieval built fabric, was not identified and it is unclear whether medieval remains survive below the very deep 18th-century layers.