It is not a monument that survives above ground, nor one that appears on heritage trails, but its brief appearance in the historical record offers a surprisingly direct glimpse into the ordinary infrastructure of a fourteenth-century urban settlement.

The latrine is mentioned in sources dating to 1305, as noted by Clarke (2002) drawing on earlier work by Simpson (1994). Its location beside Isolde's Tower is significant. The tower was one of the defensive mural towers forming part of Dublin's medieval city wall, a structure whose remains were rediscovered during development work in the late twentieth century near the junction of Essex Quay and Fishamble Street. Public latrines of this type in medieval towns were often positioned near waterways or wall ditches, which served as convenient drainage channels. By 1558, the latrine had been closed, leaving only this passing archival reference to mark its existence.

There is nothing to see at the site today in the conventional sense. Isolde's Tower itself is partially preserved within the Isolde's Tower Bar on Essex Quay, where a section of the medieval masonry is visible to visitors. The latrine stood somewhere to its west, beneath what is now a built-up stretch of the south quays. For anyone interested in the layered archaeology beneath Dublin's streets, the area rewards a slow walk with a good map: the line of the medieval wall can still be traced in places, and several other fragments of the city's fortifications survive nearby, including sections visible at Wood Quay and at the Civic Offices development. The latrine itself is long gone, but as a footnote to urban history, it is a useful reminder that the medieval city was a functioning, populated place with all the practical requirements that entails.