2023:682 - Mount Avenue, Farrendreg, Dundalk, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: Mount Avenue, Farrendreg, Dundalk
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH007-121 & LH007-125
Licence number: 23E0337
Author: Antoine Giacometti
Author/Organisation Address: Archaeology Plan, 32 Fitzwilliam Place Dublin 2
Site type: Pits, burnt spread
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 703127m, N 807744m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.008610, -6.426693
A programme of archaeological monitoring was carried out at a site at Mount Avenue, Farrendreg, Dundalk, Co. Louth, following a programme of testing and assessment under licence 18E0602 by Níall Garahy (2019).
Two burnt mounds (RMP LH007-121 & LH007-125) were found and partially excavated during monitoring works in 2002 under licence 00E0698 by T. Bolger to the south of the site, and one of these was identified extending into the site in 2019, however excavation of this feature in 2023 confirmed that the burnt spread remains were ex-situ, most likely disturbed by a 19th-century water channel.
Four pits containing no artefacts were excavated in a cluster away from the burnt mounds. These were fully excavated and environmental samples were taken. One of these contained a large amount of charcoal and had evidence for in-situ burning, and another contained burnt bone.