2019:498 - DUBLIN: AXA Building Façade, 144 Abbey Street and 53 Wolfe Tone Street, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: DUBLIN: AXA Building Façade, 144 Abbey Street and 53 Wolfe Tone Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 18E0006
Author: Aisling Collins
Author/Organisation Address: 45 Richmond Pk, Monsktown, Co Dublin
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 715318m, N 734493m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.348073, -6.268008
Monitoring took place here on 19 March and 2 April 2019.
Two areas were monitored. Area 1 is the eastern façade of the Axa building and fronts onto Wolfe Tone Park. Area 2 is the southern façade of the Axa building on the north side of a yard area that fronts onto Abbey Street.
Area 1—the slab was removed at the eastern façade and there was a concrete surface below.
Area 2—two trenches were excavated along an existing red brick wall—two red brick walls were identified c. 0.5m below present ground level, both dating to the post medieval/modern period. It is unclear if they are associated with a basement or the foundations of an earlier structure as excavations were very limited.