County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: Stockwell Lane/Wellington Quay
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 93E0002
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 708652m, N 775053m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.713833, -6.354009
A preservation order was placed on this site after the start of building work and an archaeological assessment was required by the OPW in order to ascertain if damage had been caused to archaeological strata and to assess those portions of the site which had yet to be built on. A large proportion of the ground area was covered by a pre-existing concrete slab which was used as a foundation.
Lenses of post-medieval and medieval archaeology were found at the position of the proposed lift shafts at the southern end of the site closest to the river at a depth of between 1.8m and 2.6m below the surface.
At the frontage on to Stockwell Lane a blue-grey silty layer containing medieval pottery was located at a depth of 1.4m below the present ground level. Elsewhere lenses of organic material containing medieval pottery were found at depths varying between 1.2m and 1.8m below the surface. However, archaeological material was not found in other parts of the site.
Cia McConway for A.D.S. excavated out those areas which were to be disturbed by the building of the lift shafts (see Excavations 1993, No. 160).
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
