County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Science of Materials Building, Trinity College Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0601
Author: Helen Kehoe, c/o Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 716388m, N 734041m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343782, -6.252099
An archaeological assessment was carried out before the construction of a new Science of Materials Building, Trinity College Dublin, on 11 and 14 December 1998. The area under investigation lies within the north-eastern area of the campus, south of the Luce Hall and west of the O'Reilly Institute building.
The site of the proposed development is outside the original College footprint at the corner of Pearse Street and Westland Row. Before 1710 an area of about 2ha at the intersection of Westland Row and Pearse Street was a brickfield; neither of these streets existed at the time.
Five trenches were opened by mechanical digger. The stratigraphy of the site consisted mainly of modern foundation remains over a soft, grey clay that contained some shell fragments. There was no evidence of any archaeological deposits.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
