2007:508 - DUBLIN: Coroner’s Court, 3 Store Street, Dublin

Testing was carried out at the rear of Coroner’s Court, located near Busáras near the centre of Dublin, in advance of a proposed extension to the building. Due to the small size of the extension and its lack of basement, the testing was small in scale and, for the most part, exposed a high level of modern disturbance.

Despite documentary evidence for a 17th-century tidal mill called Mabbot’s Mill in the vicinity of the site, the testing programme identified no material earlier in date than the 18th century. The corner of a building which is probably the Customs House flour mill, built in the mid-19th century, was exposed in the footprint of the proposed new extension by the test-trench; however, the impact on this structure, which is of only limited archaeological interest, will be minimal.