County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: Chord Road/North Strand
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0046
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 709577m, N 775507m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.717722, -6.339834
A medieval church (SMR 24:30) and graveyard stand to the north-east of the development site. Bradley identifies the church as that of the hospital of St Laurence, established c. 1206 (Bradley 117).
Five trenches tested the site. The area along the frontage of Chord Road might have been expected to produce material associated with the church or with the medieval hospital that existed there. No such material was observed.
Reference:
Bradley, J. 1978: The topography and layout of medieval Drogheda. Co. Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 19 (2), 98-127.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
