County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: New Physiotherapy Building, St James's Hospital
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0235
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Building
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 713543m, N 733700m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.341337, -6.294932
The development comprised an extension to an 18th-century building on the campus of St James's Hospital. The building dates to c. 1750 and formed part of the workhouse complex here, which was founded at the end of the 17th century. The programme of work consisted of the demolition of existing outhouses and the construction of a two-storey, 5m-wide concourse running along the length of the pre-existing building on the west side. Ground reduction and the excavation of foundation trenches was monitored.
A slight plinth for the building was exposed. A layer of brick and stone, 2m below the level of the surrounding yard, was exposed. This layer appeared to lie at the base of a deposit of soft, brown clay that appeared to have been cut into the natural boulder clay. The brick deposit and the soft, brown clay probably formed part of a large pit (c. 2m wide north-south, unknown width east-west), which had been dug at this point for unknown reasons but was probably associated with the construction of the 18th-century building.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
