Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quay
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.34476, -6.27152
- SMR number
- DU018-020607-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
American Geographical Society Library, UW-MilwaukeeLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavations in 1974 revealed a wooden wharf from which issued a series ofwooden drains built of re-used ships timbers and flanked by post and wattle fences. A wooden revetment was uncovered in a slipway approaching the Liffey and dated to the 13th--century. Associated with this revetment was a cobbled pathway resting on a wattle screen. Finds included local and imported wares, quarnstones and clinker-built ships-timbers (Wallace 1974, 15, Halpin 2000, 35-6, 37-42)). There are historical references to a stone quay wall from c. 1260 (Halpin, 2000, 181), in 1396 it was unsuitable for large ships, and up to the 17th century (Clarke 20002, 27).
Nearby in the register
- Quayunder 1 mi
- Riverine revetmentunder 1 mi
- Riverine revetmentunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.