County: Dublin Site name: SANDYFORD–ST STEPHEN’S GREEN, Luas Line B, Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1185
Author: Franc Myles, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 715704m, N 733325m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.337497, -6.262641
Monitoring along the 9km route of Line B of the light rail system from Sandyford to St Stephen’s Green continued throughout 2003. Except for a section along Harcourt Street and St Stephen’s Green West, the route follows the extent of the old Harcourt Street Line and uses its cuttings and embankments. It was invariably found that the 19th-century railway works had removed any archaeological deposits that may have survived along the route. A single coin was, however, recovered from the railway cutting south of Dundrum. This appears to be an Edwardian halfpenny, which was laid on a track to be flattened by a train in order to pass as a penny!
The monitoring of services diversions and an ESB substation along the western side of St Stephen’s Green did not locate any archaeological deposits. Cellars on Harcourt Street under the roadway were recorded prior to being backfilled with concrete.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
