What is recorded here

Quay in Unknown Townland is a drowned Dublin waterfront where thirteenth-century ship timber still leans inside the river clay. The wooden wharf, cobbled path and reused drains belonged to a working harbour that large ships refused but small boats trusted. It is not a display or a dead name; it is a living edge where the city kept giving up its tools to the water.

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 There are historical references to a stone quay wall from c. 1260 (Halpin, 2000, 181), in 1396 it was unsuitable for large ships, and up to the 17th century (Clarke 20002, 27).

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