2013:529 - DUBLIN CASTLE: Lower Yard, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: DUBLIN CASTLE: Lower Yard
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: —
Author: Alan R. Hayden
Author/Organisation Address: —
Site type: Icehouse
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 715422m, N 733946m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343137, -6.266647
Monitoring of the excavation of a shallow service trench in the south-west corner of the Lower Yard of the castle revealed the remains of the early 19th-century ice house, the upper part of which was demolished at the beginning of the 20th century. The services were laid in another trench dug skirting around the remains of the ice house. Cobbled surfaces, a large drain and the coal holes of two coal cellars attached to the Chapel Royal were also noted.