County: Louth Site name: CARLINGFORD: Castle Hill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0299
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 718646m, N 811940m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.042965, -6.188419
The site was tested before submission of the planning application so that the results could accompany the application for the construction of a dwelling-house. It is just inside the area of archaeological potential in Carlingford as defined by the Urban Survey for County Louth. The line of the town wall is thought to have extended east-west along the northern boundary of the proposed development site, and a mural tower was immediately east of this site
Three trenches tested this small site for evidence for the town wall. No such evidence was found. The stratigraphy comprised modern fill and building rubbish possibly deriving from demolition of a structure(s) on the site. The present boundary wall at the back of the site was built on top of layers of 19th-century fill. The fill layers extended southwards into the site, and no archaeological material was observed.
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