2015:324 - Parnell Street, Dublin, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: Parnell Street, Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 14E0006
Author: Jean O’Dowd
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 715690m, N 734965m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.352232, -6.262252
Monitoring and excavation was undertaken at Parnell Street—Workfronts 10 and 11—between January 2014 and August 2015 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 at Parnell Street.
Several previously unrecorded cellars and associated structures were identified, including a number of slate-roofed features outside the AIB building at the junction of Parnell Street West and O’Connell Street Upper. There were also sections of a wooden water main recorded in the vicinity of the Parnell Monument. Various layers were identified, which represented phases of activity, road surfacing and demolition.