County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: North Strand
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 709127m, N 775417m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.717008, -6.346679
Archaeological monitoring of a proposed apartment development at the North Strand, Drogheda, was carried out in July 1996. The site is within an area of archaeological potential as outlined in the Urban Archaeological Survey of County Louth, but lies outside the town wall to the east.
Foundation trenches were excavated over an area measuring 70m east-west and 11m north-south, to a depth ranging from 0.6m to 1.2m. Recording of the archaeology was for the most part based on an examination of the sections. Results from this examination revealed medieval and post-medieval activity on the site. A bank and double ditch and another ditch cut into the double ditch were of post-medieval date. An irregular, roughly dressed limestone wall extending on an east-west line and a drain were possibly of medieval date.
Finds were mainly pottery sherds and consisted of medieval local wares, Saintonge and Cheshire wares and, from a post-medieval context, earthenwares.
In general it would appear that the site has been fairly disturbed.
30 Laurence St., Drogheda, Co. Louth
