County: Louth Site name: DUNDALK: Dundealgan Athletic Club, Seatown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 7:119 Licence number: 98E0436
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 705188m, N 807530m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.006277, -6.395327
Archaeological assessment took place at Dundealgan Athletic Club, Seatown, Dundalk, Co. Louth, in advance of a proposed leisure development. Three trenches were dug.
Trench 1 was 4m long, 0.8m wide and 0.9m deep. Topsoil to a depth of 0.4m overlay stony natural. Trench 2 was 3.6m long, 0.8m wide and 1.04m deep. Sod and topsoil extended to 0.2m, under which a layer of 19th-century garden soil was excavated. The layer was 0.08m thick and overlay natural gravel. Trench 3 was 3.9m long, 0.9m wide and 1.2m deep. Sod and topsoil extended to 0.25m, below which a layer of post-medieval garden soil containing much rubble, interpreted as debris from cottages demolished in the 1950s, was excavated, which in turn overlay natural gravel.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
