What is recorded here

Lean-to flesh shambles crowded the High Street, built against house frontages until James I ordered them removed in 1603-25. They vanished without a surface trace, leaving behind the smell of knives, blood and bargaining rather than stone.

Gilbert (1854-9, I, 240) states that the High Street flesh shambles were removed in the Reign of James I (1603-25). Shown on the Friends of Medieval Dublin Map (1978, L6). They consisted of lean too structures which were put up against the frontage of houses along the street (Bradley & King 1987, I, 33). There is no visible surface trace. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 23 November 2012

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