1997:368 - CARLINGFORD: Backlane, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: CARLINGFORD: Backlane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 97E0064
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 5 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 718725m, N 811869m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.042314, -6.187229
Archaeological testing of proposed dwelling-houses at Backlane, Carlingford, Co. Louth, was carried out on 24 March 1997. The site lies to the east of Backlane inside the town wall and to the west of two medieval houses located in Newry Street. Excavation of four test-trenches indicated that the site was devoid of archaeological stratigraphy. Boulder clay was evident quite close to the surface and it was obvious that the site had previously been ploughed, thereby destroying any material which may originally have been present.