County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: Old Abbey Lane (rear of Dicey Reilly's Pub)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 92E0197
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Religious house - Fratres Cruciferi
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 708465m, N 775150m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.714748, -6.356795
This site is located to the north of the tower of the church of St Mary d'Urso. Excavation was carried out under a licence granted in 1992 (Excavations 1992, 45-6). Further monitoring took place during the excavation of foundation trenches. Evidence for burials was uncovered in the trenches; there were several groups of disturbed bones but 14 burials were exposed which seemed to have survived intact. These were not dateable but pre-dated the destruction of the church as they were sealed under a layer of roofing slate. They were found at a depth low enough not to be disturbed by the building work.
A stone wall was exposed which ran from south to north from the church tower. It reinforces the suggestion that there had been a transept to the north of the tower with an entrance from it into a northern aisle.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
