1998:434 - DROGHEDA: Mill Lane, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: DROGHEDA: Mill Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 24:41
Licence number: 98E0004
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 708331m, N 775750m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.720164, -6.358614
A site on Mill Lane, Drogheda, Co. Louth, was excavated in advance of a proposed residential development on 7 January 1998. Mill Lane runs south towards the river from Trinity Street and was outside the medieval walled town.
Two trenches were excavated. Trench 1 was 9.2m long and 1.4m deep. A layer of brown clay and rubble was excavated to 0.3m, after which natural gravel was exposed. Trench 2 revealed the natural gravel at 0.3m. No archaeological features or objects were recovered.