Viking House at Hammond Lane Dublin 7
Archaeologists excavating a site at Hammond Lane, Church Street on Dublin’s north side have discovered the remains of a classic Viking House. The house is the first complete plan of this type of house to have been discovered on the north side of the River Liffey and dates to the late Viking Age, immediately prior to the Anglo Norman invasion.
The house is of a type well known from excavations at Wood Quay. The house is set within a regular plot that fronted onto Church Street. These dwellings are rectangular in plan and substantial in size measuring approximately 40m2 with post and wattle side walls covered in mud for insulation. The roofs are thought to have been straw thatch and/or sod supported by four large posts around a central hearth. The houses were divided into small rooms or compartments and was described by Maragert Gowen as the Viking Age equivalent to a ‘3 bed semi-D’.
The house lay in the suburb of Oxmanstown which was served by nearby St Michan’s parish church (founded 1095) and was linked to the walled settlement on the south side of the river by the ford known as Áth Cliath and later by a bridge that aligned with Church Street. For a fully guided day tour of Wicklow and Glendalough which covers all our history, with stories,legends,myths you will also get an opportunity to visit Glendalough a spectacular monastic settlement which dates from 6th century, and is located in a stunning valley with two glacial lakes. For more information contact us today on
The Dublin City Archaeologist, Ruth Johnson said
"I am very excited to see this house and the features associated with it that survive at Church Street. This find will undoubtedly attract great interest from international Viking scholars and it raises many new questions about the settlement here. There is a popular myth that all the important archaeology of Dublin has been dug, but this find illustrates the importance of careful planning and development in the city".
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