County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: ‘The Granary’, Constitution Hill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0092
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 709151m, N 775249m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.715494, -6.346375
This site is located approximately 50m east of the line of the town wall of Drogheda, along the section which runs from Laurence’s Gate down to the Mall, and may have been built up in the 13th century. In recent years the southern portion of the site was occupied by a stone building used as a granary, which will be retained, while there is another open area forming part of the development, to the north. Both parts of the site had been disturbed in the past by excavation for basements, so that the floor levels inside were approx. 2m below the present street level.
Three trenches were excavated by machine. Archaeological material was not observed in the trenches although two of them had been excavated to a depth of almost 2m. The uppermost layer consisted of building rubble containing brick and concrete, and the underlying layer was a loose brown clay with post-medieval inclusions.
It is not clear whether archaeological strata survived on the site until the construction of the houses with their basements.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
