Different Schemes, Same City?

• 1. Light Rail Schemes
• 2. Luas Cross City: route description
• 3. What was the value of recording mid-17th- to 20th-century archaeology?
• 4. Retention strategies
• 5. Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Data Availability

Figure 1: Luas Cross City Route Map. Map also indicates interchange with Luas Red and Green Lines (Transport Infrastructure Ireland)

Figure 2: Broadstone Railway Terminus and Luas Broadstone Stop, Constitution Hill, Dublin (Transport Infrastructure Ireland)

Figure 3: Extract from Bernard de Gomme's 'The City and Suburbs of Dublin' (1673). Note circuit of medieval town wall enclosing 'The Citty of Dublin' in relation to St Stephen's Green and 'Trinity Colledg' which mark the alignment of LCC. © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Figure 4: 'Terminus of the Midland Great Western Railway' at Broadstone by Henry Adlard (1828-1869). Note presence of Mallet's 'Insistent Pontoon Bridge' crossing the Royal Canal. © National Library of Ireland

Figure 5: Luas terminus at Broombridge Hamilton Depot (Transport Infrastructure Ireland)

Figure 6: A digital facial reconstruction of a Tudor Dubliner from College Green, with intermediate modelling stages shown on left (Rubicon Heritage Ltd)

Figure 7: O'Brien National Monument on O'Connell Street, showing LCC construction works and an inbound Luas Red Line tram (Transport Infrastructure Ireland)

Figure 8: Cleaning newly exposed buttresses and retaining walls, Broadstone Harbour (Transport Infrastructure Ireland)

Figure 9: Cholera cemetery charnel trench under excavation. (Barrow Photography for Rubicon Heritage Ltd)

Figure 10: LCC Area 29 superimposed on 'An exact extract of the City and Suburbs of Dublin' by Rocque (1756); illustrating extent of Wide Street Commissioners demolition work. © Irish Historic Towns, Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin

Figure 11: Proposed MetroLink Station at St Stephen's Green Park (Transport Infrastructure Ireland)

Figure 12: View from north-east of the Royal Canal 5th Level 6th Lock Gate and historic MGWR bridge abutment (Alastair Coey Architects)

Figure 13: Cross-section through the perimeter ditch of St Stephen's Green Park, located below modern footpath (Rubicon Heritage Ltd)

Figure 14: View of the retaining revetment wall of St Stephen's Green Park's perimeter ditch (or ha-ha). Note this wall now functions as the foundation for the Park's perimeter fence (Rubicon Heritage Ltd)

Figure 15: Typical Georgian building on 43 Dominick Street. Note insulating passage to fore, and coal hole covers parallel to street kerb (Left; Archaeology and Built Heritage); example of partially infilled lightwells/keg drops on Marlborough Street (Top right); example of coal hole cover with granite surround (Bottom right, Archaeology and Built Heritage Ltd)

Figure 16: View of archaeologist recording cellar crowns and coal holes, Dominick Street Lower where associated Georgian buildings had been demolished c. 1960s (Archaeology and Built Heritage Ltd)

Figure 17: Turk's Head meerschaum pipe recovered from Broadstone Harbour (Transport Infrastructure Ireland)

Table 1: Typical investigation and treatment of cellar works requirements

Table 2: Specialist classification to inform NMI retention policy for LCC (Rubicon Heritage Ltd)