County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: St Stephen’s Green Park
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: C242; E2684, E2685
Author: Donal Fallon, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 715936m, N 733405m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.338174, -6.259119
In September 2007 three boreholes were excavated within Stephen’s Green Park as part of ground-investigation works undertaken to inform the design and development of the proposed Metro North rail project. St Stephen’s Green is a national monument in the ownership of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The works were monitored by CRDS Ltd, acting on behalf of Environmental Resource Management Ltd.
The first borehole (732) was located in the north-western corner of St Stephen’s Green in a grass area a short distance south of the park entrance. The second (733) was located a short distance south-west of the centre of Stephen’s Green, under an existing tarmac path. The third (734) was located close to the southern boundary of the park, a short distance east of the park’s south-west entrance, within a grass area. All three boreholes were excavated by hand to sufficient depth to confirm that no service trenches would be impacted upon by machine boring. Two of the boreholes measured 0.5m in length and breadth. The third (733) measured 1m in length and 0.5m in breadth. In two of the boreholes natural soils were exposed at a depth of less than 0.75m. In the remaining borehole (732) a layer of disturbed soils over 1m in depth was exposed; this deposit contained material indicating a relatively recent date. No archaeological features were identified in any of the trenches and the only finds recovered were of modern date.
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