2018:025 - Pensioner’s Graveyard, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: Pensioner’s Graveyard, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 17E0572

Author: Dermot Nelis

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 712730m, N 733900m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343304, -6.307071

Development will involve installation of seven new-cast plinths to act as headstones in the Pensioner's Graveyard, Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The new plinths will each measure 0.63m long x 0.48m wide, and excavation will be limited to a depth of approximately 0.3m. It is intended to restore approximately 280 headstones on plinths on a phased basis over several years.

No archaeological features or artefacts were revealed during monitoring.

36 Fingal Street, Dublin 8