County: Louth Site name: PHILLIPSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0584
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 700929m, N 786315m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.816552, -6.467271
There is a record of a holy well in the townland of Phillipstown (Mosstown Parish), Dunleer, Co. Louth, with the tradition that it lay 'by the roadside to N. of RC church' (notes from SMR files for SMR 17:64). Its precise location is not noted. A dwelling-house was planned for the side of the road c. 80m north of the Catholic Church.
Four trenches were excavated to test the location of the proposed well, in the gateway and driveway of the development, as these all lie by the side of the road, as well as in the locations of the house and of the percolation area. A continuous shallow trench was cut along the line of the driveway.
A grey, loamy sod and ploughsoil, 200– 300mm deep, overlay a mixed, natural glacial deposit. This varied from grey to brown and also in stone content. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
