County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: Patrickswell Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: House - 18th/19th century
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 708427m, N 775217m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.715357, -6.357347
Archaeological monitoring of proposed alterations to an existing premises at Patrickswell Lane, Drogheda, was carried out in November 1996. The site is located immediately to the east of the Abbey and Hospital of St Mary D'Urso, founded by Ursus de Swemele in 1206.
Monitoring of site excavation revealed a cobbled surface and some post-medieval layers of brown loam. The back wall of two houses which formerly fronted onto Abbey Lane was exposed in the middle of the site, and it would appear that the cobbled surface is associated with these houses and represents a lane to the north, visible on the 1835 edition manuscript town plan.
All finds recovered from the site consist of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century pottery.
30 Laurence St., Drogheda, Co. Louth
