County: Louth Site name: CASTLELUMNY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 21:2 Licence number: 98E0354
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 703727m, N 785396m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.807748, -6.425102
Archaeological assessment took place at Castlelumny, Dunleer, Co. Louth, in advance of a proposed residential development. The site lies close to the probable site of a castle first mentioned in 1301, on the south side of the 'castle field'.
Six trenches revealed orange boulder clay at between 0.26m and 0.44m from the surface underlying ploughsoil. No archaeological features or objects were found, and locals suggest that the castle site stood on the summit of the hill to the north.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
