placenamesSaint Peter's
Paróiste Pheadair
Limited excavation in 2000 established the presence of burials that were preserved in place.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Paróiste Pheadair · Irish · main form · validated name
- Saint Peter's · English · main form
Place & story
A cemetery beneath later ground
Dermot Nelis’s report on 1–5 Stephen Street Upper places the site in Saint Peter’s parish, near the medieval churches of St Peter and St Stephen. Excavation in August 2000 identified six partially exposed burials and two skull fragments in the site’s northeast corner. Work stopped short of fully uncovering the burials, and the human remains were preserved in place. Later built ground above the archaeological levels included brick, concrete floors and walls. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Uppercross
- Barony
- Dublin
- Barony
- Dublin City
- Coordinates
- 53.32332, -6.26465
- Mapped area
- 7.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2778 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Peter's. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2000:0287, Dublin: 1–5 Stephen Street Upper, licence 00E0559 ext. · Dermot Nelis, Irish Archaeological Consultancy; Excavations.ie / Wordwell
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.