County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: Blind Quay/Merchant's Row
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0101
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 709127m, N 775117m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.714313, -6.346785
The site comprises a block that stretches between North Strand and the Quays along the Boyne, with Blind Quay as its western boundary. It was occupied by 19th-century stone buildings, which functioned in more recent times as a corn store and a warehouse. The development also encompassed a stone building at the north end, which will be retained.
Five test-trenches exposed evidence of reclaiming of ground and of dumping of material, dating from the 17th into the 18th century. A major element of the dumping was building rubble, presumably derived from elsewhere in the town. The dumping may have been carried out with the aim of reclaiming ground in the bed of the River Boyne. Where this material was bottomed it was 3m deep. The remains of an east-west stone wall, probably associated with the construction of the warehouse, were exposed.
Medieval structures or layers were not observed.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
