2020:489 - DUBLIN 8: Pensioners' Graveyard, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: DUBLIN 8: Pensioners' Graveyard, Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 17E0572 Ext.
Author: Dermot Nelis
Author/Organisation Address: 36 Fingal Street, Dublin 8
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 712730m, N 733900m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343304, -6.307071
Phase 2 development works were carried out on 12 February 2020, and involved hand-excavation of 2 north-south aligned sample headstones in the eastern end of the Pensioners’ Graveyard. Excavation for Headstone 0/83 measured 0.55m long x 0.35m wide x 0.3m deep and excavation for Headstone 161/82 measured 0.4m long x 0.3m wide x 0.3m deep.
No archaeological features or artefacts were revealed during monitoring of groundworks, and natural geology was not identified during the works.