Known as New Chambers, it occupied a position in what was one of the most commercially active zones of the medieval city, a riverside frontage where trade, administration, and daily urban life pressed close together. The name itself raises questions that the surviving record cannot fully answer: new in relation to what, and chambers suggesting a formal or official function, though the specifics remain elusive.

The sole cartographic evidence for New Chambers comes from the Friends of Medieval Dublin map, published in 1978 and catalogued at reference L 10, which places the building roughly midway along Wood Quay. The Friends of Medieval Dublin was a group formed in response to the controversy surrounding the development of the Civic Offices at Wood Quay, a site that had yielded extraordinarily significant Viking and medieval archaeological deposits during excavations in the 1970s. Their mapping work was part of a broader effort to document the medieval topography of the city before it was lost entirely, and it is largely through such compilations that fragmentary place names and building references survive. The research was compiled by Geraldine Stout and uploaded to record in December 2012, preserving what amounts to a single locational reference for a structure that might otherwise have vanished without even a name attached.

There is nothing to see at the site today, and that is rather the point. The area around Wood Quay is now dominated by the Civic Offices of Dublin City Council, buildings whose controversial construction displaced the very archaeology that might have shed more light on places like New Chambers. A visitor standing on the quay can look across to the general area indicated on the 1978 map and consider how much of the medieval city exists only in fragmentary records, place names, and scholarly annotations. The absence itself is informative, a reminder that the documentary and archaeological record of urban medieval Ireland is partial at best, and that many buildings of this period survive only as a name on a map compiled decades after the ground that held them was cleared.