placenamesOxmantown
Baile na Lochlannach
Excavations at Hammond Lane revealed the growth of a medieval settlement north of the Liffey.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile na Lochlannach · Irish · main form
- Oxmantown · English · main form
Place & story
From wet ground to property plots
Sinéad Phelan’s 2006 excavation report describes marshy ground and fields becoming more intensively occupied after an early twelfth-century clay bank was built. By the end of that century, five property divisions had developed beside Oxmantown Street, now Church Street. [2]
Work and building materials
The excavated plots contained hearths, storage pits, wells and metalworking evidence. Stone buildings and boundary walls appeared during the thirteenth century, replacing earlier timber-and-wattle construction. Pottery included Leinster cooking vessels and fragments of two matching Ham Green jugs. Later basements damaged parts of the medieval deposits. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Oxmantown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2006:623 — 3–15 Hammond Lane/161–168 Church Street, Dublin; licence 05E0765 · Sinéad Phelan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2015-11-10. How this page was prepared.