County: Dublin Site name: Guinness Brewery, James' Gate, Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-020 Licence number: 12E0101 ext
Author: Eoin Halpin
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 314011m, N 234097m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343711, -6.288793
The site is located within the grounds of the Guinness Brewery at St James' Gate, Dublin 8. The site of the proposed works is located north of James' Street and is bounded to the north by Victoria Quay, to the east by Wattling Street, to the south and west by existing brewery areas, at NGR 314090/234105.
The proposed works are to be carried out as an extension to the existing Cold Block (fermentation and beer processing) tanking storage facility constructed as part of the scope of the newly constructed Brewhouse development (planning ref: 3730/11) within the Guinness Brewery lands.
The proposed development comprises the demolition of an existing two-storey over basement administrative building (Logistics Building) and associated site works. These works will involve an element of some ground reduction beneath the basement to remove existing ground beams.
Due to the fact that the existing building is basemented to a depth of some c. 2m OD, that is 3m below present ground surface which stands at c. 5.1m OD, with relatively dense piling and associated ground beam regime thereafter, the evidence strongly suggests that significant disturbance has already occurred beneath the footprint of the logistics building.
It is proposed to demolish the logistics building, remove the basement floor, associated ground beams and piles and then re-pile the ground in preparation for the construction of an extension to the Cold Block tanking storage facility. This extension is limited to the eastern end of the site of the logistics building, the western end of the site is to remain largely undeveloped for the present and will be reinstated as surface car paring.
It is very likely that the previous works on the site associated with the construction of the logistics building, excavation of the basement, piling and the insertion of ground beams, have already had significantly negative impacts on any archaeological deposits which may once have survived in the area of the Guinness lands. However it is possible that some in situ deposits may have survived, as evidence from the monitoring and excavations elsewhere on site suggest consistent and deeply stratified occupation deposits stretching back to the 12th century and before.
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