County: Meath Site name: DULEEK: Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0208
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 704608m, N 768438m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.655245, -6.417468
Archaeological assessment took place at a proposed commercial site at Main Street, Duleek, Co. Meath. The site lies within the area of archaeological importance attached to this early monastic settlement and medieval borough.
Two trenches were excavated along the lines of the foundations. Trench 1 was 7m long and 1m wide and was orientated east-west. The top 0.6m was a brown loam with stone and gravel, under which boulder clay was exposed. In Trench 2, which was 25m long and 1m wide running north-south, a brown, sandy clay some 0.9m thick overlay a thin layer of charcoal 0.2m thick. A layer of brown loam containing red brick fragments underlay this. At 1.6m below the surface boulder clay was visible.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
