What is recorded here

Dalkey is a medieval burgage plot sealed beneath modern Dalkey, marked by a ditch, domestic pits, hearths and green glazed floor tiles dating from the mid-12th to late 14th century. A substantial stone building later rose directly over that inhabited place, carrying the life below into a larger structure. The old boundary still runs beneath the town, remembering the people who cooked, chatted and discarded ordinary things before stone forgot them.

A habitation site excavated at 62 Castle Street by John Kavanagh under licence 02E1871. The earliest phase of activity identified on the site was characterised by a series of features associated with a medieval burgage plot. The plot was defined by a ditch and drain along the E boundary of the site. Numerous domestic rubbish pits were found within the area of the burgage plot. Several post-holes, stake-holes and hearths, located along the S edge of a metalled surface, suggested a habitation area at the N end of the site. The pottery assemblage recovered from these features would indicate a mid-12th- to late 14th-century date. Other artefacts included a bone spindle whorl, and iron knife, fragments of rotary querns and several fragments of green glazed floor tiles. A substantial stone building (DU023-064001-) was constructed directly over the medieval habitation area. The building occupied the NW corner of the site and extended out under Dalkey Avenue to the W. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

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