County: Louth Site name: FARRANDREG, Dundalk
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 95E0109
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 702929m, N 808010m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.011042, -6.429620
A proposed housing development in Farrandreg was the subject of an archaeological assessment in June 1995. The site, which will include 37 houses, is in the vicinity of Castletown motte and within a zone of archaeological potential as outlined by Paul Gosling in his survey of Dundalk. A total of 22 trenches were excavated on the site in the areas to be affected by the construction of the houses and the access road. The natural boulder clay was exposed directly below the sod in nearly all the trenches. The only features of note were furrows discovered running east-west in the field immediately south of Farrandreg House and a stone field drain running north-south in the same area. Both features would appear to be quite late in date.
30 Laurence St., Drogheda, Co. Louth
