County: Louth Site name: TERMONFECKIN: Credit Union, Big Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 22:24, 25 Licence number: 98E0075
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 713219m, N 781008m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.766354, -6.282665
Archaeological assessment took place at the Credit Union, Big Street, Termonfeckin, Co. Louth, in advance of a proposed extension. Termonfeckin was the location of an early monastic site of which a possible enclosure, church foundations and cemetery, two souterrains, a high cross, a well and a grave slab remain. It is also the site of a later medieval borough that included two late medieval tower-houses.
Three trenches were excavated. Trench 1 was north-south in orientation and 11m long, 1m wide and 1.5m deep. Sod was 0.1m deep and overlay a sandy, brown loam 0.4m deep, which produced no finds. This lay over the boulder clay, which was cut by two pits measuring 1m and 0.6m in diameter, filled with dark brown clay and stone, but produced no finds.
Trench 2 was 5m long and was excavated to a depth of 1m. The boulder clay was exposed at 0.5m under topsoil.
Trench 3, 12m long, 1m wide and 1m deep, was excavated in the south end. Boulder clay was encountered at 0.6m deep. A pit, 0.9m wide and 0.7m deep, cut into the natural clay, contained stones but no diagnostic finds.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
