County: Louth Site name: DAWSON'S DEMESNE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Valerie J. Keeley
Site type: Mound
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 697130m, N 790414m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.854098, -6.523650
This site, identified as a possible ringfort, lay along the land requirement area of a motorway under construction.
Prior to excavation the site appeared as a mound measuring 16m east-west, 14m north-south and l.4m in maximum height.
A section through the feature showed a profile of loose clay and stones. No finds were recovered. The old ground surface was visible under this material. The recovery of shells, modern crockery fragments and glass from the old plough zone under the mound established that the feature is not of archaeological significance.
Within the area of the road another feature was found. This took the form of an arrangement of boulders and larger stones. These lay in a cluster at one end and smaller stones extended from this in a westerly direction. These may represent the base of an old wall or may be associated with modern activity like the mound.
29/30 Duke St. Athy, Co. Kildare
