County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: Wellington Quay
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 24:41 Licence number: 98E0096
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 708569m, N 775076m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.714061, -6.355247
Archaeological testing took place in advance of a proposed residential development at Wellington Quay, Drogheda, Co. Louth. The site is outside the town wall, close to the present Dominican church. Previous testing on the street (by Christiaan Corlett, Excavations 1997, 129, 97E0172) has suggested that the whole site is composed of built-up ground dating to the 18th/19th century.
Two trenches were excavated. Trench 1 ran north-south and was 10m long and 1m deep. A small section was excavated to a depth of 1.5m. A layer of brown clay loam containing frequent lumps of animal bone, red brick rubble and mortar extended under concrete to the bottom of the trench.
Trench 2 was 6m long, 1m wide and 1m deep. A blackened stone surface, perhaps the footing of an earlier building, overlay a layer of brown clay loam identical to that in Trench 1. This extended to the limit of the trench.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
