2000:0241 - DUBLIN: Collins Square, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: DUBLIN: Collins Square, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 94E0125 ext.
Author: Christine Baker, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 713960m, N 734537m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.348765, -6.288373
Monitoring was undertaken of several phases of service trenches. Phase I was of two hand-dug trenches along the embankment immediately south of Arbour Hill road and to the north-west of Clarke Square; Phase II was of Collins Square North; Phase III was of Collins Square West; and Phase IV was of Collins Square South. Trenching averaged 0.7m wide and varied from 0.7m to 1.2m deep. No structures, deposits or artefacts of archaeological significance were found.