2025:367 - Dublin City, Dublin

 

This was an additional sixth phase of Geotechnical Investigation (GI) along the line of the proposed MetroLink project. Nineteen borehole inspection pits were monitored between the Home Farm sports ground in Glasnevin and Charlemont Place. Some of these were very near the original locations and produced similar results.

In the Home Farm ground there was still no trace of anything related to the human burials known to have been found there.

In the city centre, between the Royal and Grand canals, the stratigraphy was all as expected under the paving: dark brown soil with fragments of brick, mortar and slate, and also oyster shells and occasional white-glazed potsherds -“delph”.

Traces of 18^th– or 19^th-century structural features were found at four locations. Part of a cobbled surface was found at Trinity College, and rubble from possible demolished structures at three other locations: just two yellow bricks at Spring Garden Lane, some mortared bricks at Charlemont Place, and some pieces of bricks, mortar and possible Portland stone from near Leinster House. No archaeological artefacts were found.