2025:573 - 6 POWER’S SQUARE, Dublin 8, Dublin

Archaeological monitoring of groundworks associated with the permitted renovation and extension at 6 Power’s Square, Dublin 8. Monitoring followed on from recommendations made within an archaeological assessment for the site by IAC in 2025 (Bailey 2025), which was also carried out as part of the conditions attached to the development.

The property comprises an existing dwelling with a small rear yard within an established residential street in Dublin 8. Given the area’s long history of urban occupation, there was a reasonable likelihood that earlier building fabric or plot-boundary features might survive below ground. Monitoring took place intermittently between 31 March and 9 June 2025 during limited ground disturbance for the renovation and extension.

Two features of later historical date were identified. Inside the house, a low red brick foundation ran lengthwise between the front and rear doors and which likely represents the former support for a suspended timber floor. In the rear yard, a more substantial red brick wall, set over a single course of calp limestone and aligned northwest–southeast, was uncovered. Its character and position suggest it represents the surviving foundations of an earlier house terrace that formerly spanned the plot.

To allow the development to proceed while protecting what remained, the top three brick courses were removed under archaeological supervision; the lower brick courses and limestone footing were preserved in place. Both features were fully recorded (notes, drawings, photographs and GPS survey). No artefacts were recovered, and no further archaeological measures are considered necessary.