County: Dublin Site name: Luas Broombridge (BXD), Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0459
Author: Edmond O’Donovan
Site type: Urban post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714816m, N 735101m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.353644, -6.275324
Monitoring, supervised by the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) for IGSL Ltd, was undertaken during the excavation of 44 geotechnical site investigation trenches along the proposed route of Luas Broombridge (BXD) between 28 January and 6 June 2012.
No archaeological stratigraphy was identified during the monitoring programme. The earliest pottery type recovered was a sherd of North Devon Gravel Tempered Ware recovered from the Marlborough Street site investigations, which is ubiquitous in the 17th and 18th century. This part of the city was extensively developed at this time.
Structural remains of the side walls of the Midland Great Western Railway cutting and the boundary wall of St Brendan’s Hospital in Grangegorman were also examined. The latter trenches were excavated abutting the boundary wall between the hospital complex and the Dublin Bus Phibsborough Depot. In all instances these remains dated from the late 18th and 19th century.
Edmond O’Donovan and Associates, 77 Fairyhill, Bray, Co. Wicklow
