County: Dublin Site name: 48–49 Wellington Quay, Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018–020 Licence number: 08E0218
Author: Daire Leahy, ADS Ltd, 110 Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715678m, N 734263m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.345931, -6.262673
The redevelopment of the building known as Merchants Hall as a restaurant/licensed premises involved the lowering of the basement floor. Testing of the basement was carried out in March 2008 and revealed a series of two mortar floors and a short section of rough red-brick wall underlying the modern concrete floor. By agreement with the Guild Merchant, the owner of the adjacent building, Francis Mills, built the basement into Merchant Hall in 1821/22 for use as a wine cellar. It is suggested that these features were associated with this use of the basement as a wine cellar.
