County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Cardiac Unit, St James's Hospital, James's Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0560
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Workhouse and Hospital
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 713436m, N 733376m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.338450, -6.296654
Six trenches tested the location of the new cardiac building for the hospital, at the south side of the James's Hospital campus. All six showed evidence for dumping of 19th-century material, some of which was domestic rubbish, that probably derived from the workhouse and hospital. There was also some building rubble.
The site is close to the Grand Canal, and there is some evidence that there was an overflow pool for the canal at the approximate location of the proposed building. The nature of the underlying grey silt was consistent with the presence of such a pool.
Archaeological material underlying the material mentioned above was not observed.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
