2000:0241 - DUBLIN: Collins Square, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

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.

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.

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