2016:168 - St James' Hospital, James Street, Dublin 8, Dublin

Monitoring of groundworks at a development on the campus of St James' Hospital, James Street, Dublin 8, was carried out between 23 May and 23 June 2016. The project consisted of the erection of temporary modular buildings on an existing car park in the eastern part of the campus. A late 19th/early 20th-century one-storey building, located along the southern side of the development site, was demolished in advance of the development. The monitoring of groundworks was a condition of planning. There were no recorded monuments in the vicinity of the development. The nearest previous excavation to the development site involved the test excavation of a radiotherapy facility, located immediately west of the development site, in 2008 (Licence 08E1021), which uncovered the foundations of the walls of a school house constructed c. 1838 and a small assemblage of disarticulated human bone. Subsequent monitoring of the reduction in levels of the garden soils on the site revealed no further human bone and it was concluded that the bone was the result of re-deposited material within the site. The groundworks involved the excavation of foundation trenches and service trenches, which revealed evidence associated with the recently demolished late 19th/early 20th-century building and the site's use within the hospital campus up to the present day. A large number of modern services were also uncovered. There was no evidence of activity pre-dating the modern era. Only modern artefacts were recovered. Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed.

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