2015:251 - Record Tower, Dublin Castle, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: Record Tower, Dublin Castle

Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU018-020488 Licence number: None

Author: Alan R. Hayden

Site type: Medieval castle

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 715421m, N 733937m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343056, -6.266665

The removal of 20th-century render from the north-west side of the Record Tower was monitored. It revealed parts of a number of blocked opes including the doorway of late 17th/early 18th-century passageway that led through the tower to the forerunner of the Chapel Royal.

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