"A viable explosive device was found on a bus yesterday evening in Maynooth," near Dublin, a spokesman said, adding that police had been tipped off by an anonymous call.
The device was defused by the Irish army, he said.
It was found late Monday night local time and was declared safe early Tuesday morning after a controlled explosion by bomb disposal experts.
An Irish defence forces spokesman confirmed that an army bomb disposal squad had made safe "a viable improvised device" early Tuesday at Maynooth in County Kildare.
"We can't give any details about the device but it was viable. It was on a bus and by the time our team was called in the bus was evacuated and parked at a bus stop," the spokesman said.
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Some 8500 police are lining the sections of Dublin where the queen and her husband Prince Philip plan to visit. She is coming to Dublin for a four-day visit.
She will be the first monarch to visit the Republic of Ireland since it gained independence.
Yesterday, Londoners were urged to be vigilant after a dissident Irish terror group issued a coded bomb warning on the eve of the Queen's first visit to the Irish Republic.
The threat mentioned Central London but was "not specific in relation to location or time". However, police across the English capital were on heightened alert and there were a number of road closures as officers dealt with suspicious situations.
The Mall was closed for several hours in the morning after officers noticed that a manhole cover had been lifted, and a controlled explosion was carried out on a suitcase found in Northumberland Avenue.
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