Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34348, -6.26883
- SMR number
- DU018-020830-
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 at26-29 Castle Street and 20 Lord Edward Street in 1992 uncoveredevidence for domestic habitation in the form of post and wattle structures with associated floors. Finds included stick pins, arrowheads, knives, needles and combs (Byrne 1992, 18-19). Excavations on the same site in 1993, earlier structures ranging from the 10th -13th century. They were rectangular in plan (L 18.2m, Wth 5.5m on average). A large number of cess pits were uncovered, unlined and produced a large quantity of faunal and botancial remains (Byrne, 1994, 15-16).
Nearby in the register
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - Viking/Hiberno-Norseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.