County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: 10 Dyer Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0031
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: House - 18th century
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 708727m, N 774917m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.712601, -6.352911
Archaeological testing took place in advance of a proposed development at 10 Dyer Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth, on 3 February 1997. The street is first mentioned in 1329 and was subsequently known as the vicus tinctorum, indicating a specialist clothier district. Excavations on the north side of the street (Excavations 1996, 75, 96E0165) revealed domestic housing and industrial activity. Medieval documents also mention some properties on the south side, including the chapel of St Saviour.
Three trenches were excavated inside the existing house at this site. They showed that the house walls were cut into both post-medieval and medieval layers, and this, along with artefacts found, suggested a date of 1700–50 for the construction of the house. A medieval layer consisted of black organic soil with no features. A reused timber of probable medieval date was recovered from the building.
Trench 3 was excavated further north and revealed rubble to a depth of 0.7m which overlay a black organic medieval layer with shell, bone and pottery. This layer extended to a depth of 1.1m and overlay a layer of large stones.
5 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
