The site at Bride Street is a reminder of how much of Dublin's medieval fabric survives, invisibly, just below the surface of the ordinary city.

In 1993, excavations were carried out in advance of a housing development at 98 to 99 Bride Street. What they uncovered was the eastern end of a burial ground, along with deposits dated to the 12th and 13th centuries, placing the site firmly within the period of Norman influence in Dublin, when the city was expanding and formalising its ecclesiastical geography. The findings were published by Mc Mahon in 1994. The burials were Christian in character, which in this period typically means the bodies were laid out in an extended supine position, aligned roughly east to west, without grave goods, in keeping with medieval Christian burial practice. The association with 12th to 13th century deposits suggests the ground was in use during a period of considerable urban development in this part of the city.

Bride Street today gives little away. The area takes its name from St Bride, or Brigid, and a church dedication to her in this neighbourhood is documented in the medieval period, which may well connect to the burial ground uncovered here. There is nothing marked on the street to indicate what lies below, and the housing development that prompted the excavation long since obscures the physical site. For those interested in Dublin's archaeology, the published excavation report, cited as Mc Mahon 1994, is the most direct route to the detail. The site itself is worth a moment's pause on any walk through the Liberties and the streets around St Patrick's Cathedral, an area where medieval layers, ecclesiastical boundaries, and centuries of urban life have compressed into a remarkably small geography.