County: Louth Site name: DUNLEER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0348
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 705687m, N 788034m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.831053, -6.394456
An archaeological assessment was carried out before the commencement of the Dunleer Sewerage Scheme, at the site of the sewage treatment works and along the line of the pipelines both in and on the outskirts of the town. Dunleer is an Early Christian foundation dating to the 6th or 7th century.
Three test-trenches were excavated, two of them in Main Street, to test for the possible survival of an Early Christian enclosure, and the third to test for the survival of burials at the point where the scheme comes closest to the churchyard.
Evidence of disturbance caused by insertion of sewerage and water pipes was exposed in Main Street, to a maximum depth of 3m in the case of Trench 2 but at a higher depth in Trench 1. The third test-trench exposed natural subsoil under garden soil.
Nothing of archaeological interest was exposed in the three trenches.
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