2015:321 - St Stephen’s Green, Dawson Street, Nassau Street and Grafton Street, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: St Stephen’s Green, Dawson Street, Nassau Street and Grafton Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 14E0002
Author: Melanie McQuade
Author/Organisation Address: Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd, Office 8, Dominick Court, 40-41 Dominick St. Upper, Dublin 1
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715834m, N 733590m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.339849, -6.260593
Monitoring and excavation were undertaken at St. Stephen’s Green, Dawson Street, Nassau Street and Grafton Street—Workfronts 1a–c and 2—between January 2014 and August 2015. These works were undertaken for GMC (Ireland) Ltd on behalf of the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA), now Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).
Monitoring of excavations for Utilities Works was carried out along the route of the planned Luas Cross City (LCC) light rail system. During the course of the monitoring programme at St. Stephen’s Green, Dawson Street, Nassau Street and Grafton Street several previously unrecorded cellars and associated structures were identified. Numerous drains, sewers and other culverted services were noted in all areas where excavations were undertaken. Layers representing phases of road surfacing, activity and demolition were also recorded.