County: Louth Site name: COLLON: Lower St.
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 94E0146
Author: Kieran Campbell
Site type: Field boundary
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 699729m, N 781816m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.776368, -6.486940
The village of Collon, a grange of Mellifont in the Middle Ages, became the estate village of the Foster family. Test trenches excavated on a site for a house uncovered a ditch with a right-angle turn orientated diagonally to the present alignment of properties. The ditch, 2m wide and 0.6m deep below topsoil, had a fill of wet grey silt with abundant, decayed roots. A small body sherd of unglazed red earthenware, probably post-medieval, was recovered from the fill. The ditch, possibly a field boundary or garden enclosure, evidently predates the present layout of Collon, attributed to the Regency period.
6 St Ultan's, Laytown, Drogheda
