County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Berkley Library Building Extension, Trinity College Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0361
Author: Helen Kehoe, c/o Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 716131m, N 733945m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.342976, -6.255991
An archaeological assessment was carried out at Trinity College Dublin before the building of an extension to the present Berkeley Library. The area under investigation extended from the south of the Berkeley Library/Arts Block building to the Nassau Street boundary of Trinity College.
Nassau Street, which forms the southern boundary to Trinity College, was originally known as St Patrick's Well Lane, from a 12th-century well or fountain that lay within the grounds of the college.
Four trenches were opened, three of which consisted of topsoil over compact, brown, stony clay. Initial deposits in Trench 4 consisted of late red brick wall remains, including the original blackstone boundary wall that enclosed the Provost's garden. There was no evidence of any earlier archaeological features or finds.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
