County: Louth Site name: DEMESNE, Dundalk
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 95E0238
Author: Kieran Campbell
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 704673m, N 807151m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.002972, -6.403321
The site is located in the medieval suburb of 'Upper Quarter' or 'Upper End' on the south side of the walled town of Dundalk. P. Gosling has suggested that the suburb was enclosed within the town defences in the 15th or 16th century. On Richardson's 1680 town map the location of this small 7.3m x 5.1m site is shown occupied by back gardens running from houses on Park St. to the town wall. From the 1940s to the early 20th century the area formed part of the demesne of the Clanbrassil estate.
A test-trench exposed post-medieval deposits to a depth of 1.2m overlying natural gravel. The lowest layer in the trench produced a rim of a Staffordshire-type slipware bowl and probably pre-dates the laying out of the demesne.
6 St Ultans, Laytown, Drogheda, Co. Louth
