2021:488 - DUBLIN: College Square, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: DUBLIN: College Square
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 19E0262
Author: James Kyle, c/o Archaeology & Built Heritage
Author/Organisation Address: St. Paul's Enterprise, Smithifeld, Dublin 7
Site type: Riverine revetment and Building
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 716143m, N 734310m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.346249, -6.255691
Further excavations took place on the site of the former College House/Screen Cinema site this year, which revealed several further, in situ, fragments of a c.1659–1662 constructed timber revetment and reclamation deposits fronting onto the former shoreline of the River Liffey at Lazar’s Hill (modern Townsend Street). These lay beneath an undisturbed portion of the site which also contained the remains of part of the former Temperance Hall/Coffee Palace at No. 6 Townsend Street, which was completed in 1875 to the designs of Frederick Morley and built by George Tyrrell at a cost of £20,000 for the Total Abstinence Society.