County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Library Square, Trinity College Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0150
Author: Linzi Simpson, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Graveyard and Library
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 716037m, N 734115m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.344523, -6.257340
In March 1998 pipe-laying in Library Square, TCD, uncovered articulated, stratified, skeletal remains in a 'graveyard' deposit c. 0.6m deep. The remains were orientated east-west and, at the lowest level, lay in shallow pits cut into the boulder clay. They are presumed to relate to the Priory of All Hallows, the forerunner of the College, which was founded by Diarmait Mac Murchada in c. 1166 (or before). The priory is thought to have stood in the south-east corner of Front Square, which would place the cemetery to the west of the original quadrangle. On inspection of the pipe-trench the cemetery appears to be bounded on the north and west by the present buildings of Library Square (the Rubrics and the Old Library). The east and south extent is not known.
A series of walls was also exposed in the pipe-trench. As well as several later walls, the walls of the original early 18th-century ranges were uncovered on the north and west side of Library Square (the only surviving range is the Rubrics on the east side). These walls were not removed but were neatly drilled through by Hole Masters.
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