County: Dublin Site name: LUAS LINE B, Dublin (Sandyford–St Stephen’s Green)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1185
Author: Franc Myles, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation- miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 715786m, N 733515m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.339190, -6.261326
A licence was issued in order that an archaeologist would be present at all stages of the construction works connected with the proposed Line B of the LUAS track and associated utilities. Monitoring along the 9km route of Line B has concentrated in areas adjacent to recorded sites since construction began in the autumn of 2001. The route follows the extent of the old Harcourt Street Line and uses its cuttings and embankments. In most cases it has been found that the 19th-century railway works had removed any archaeological deposits that may have survived.
The monitoring of services diversions along the western side of St Stephen’s Green did not locate any deposits of archaeological significance. As construction work moves into Harcourt Street (which lies within the Dublin city zone of archaeological potential), all ground reduction works will be monitored.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
