2010:265 - DUBLIN: Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin
NMI Burial Excavation Records
County: Dublin
Site name: DUBLIN: Grand Canal Harbour
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 08E0741
Author: Claire Walsh
Site type: Quay
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 713979m, N 733788m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.342034, -6.288357
Test excavation of the 18th-century harbour, backfilled in the 1970s, was undertaken to determine the quality of surviving remains. These proved to be substantial and will have to be preserved in any new development.