County: Louth Site name: DAWSONS DEMESNE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 17:20 Licence number: 99E0061
Author: Finola O'Carroll, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 696430m, N 790714m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.856923, -6.534189
A private house was to be built close to the banks of the Dee River, on the east side of Ardee. This area is believed to be a possible location of the Carmelite friary, founded in 1302. Fourteen test-trenches were excavated by mechanical digger in the footprint of the proposed house.
The trenches demonstrated that river silts were present along a line parallel to the present line of the river but 10m to the north of the existing bank at a depth of between 0.45m and 0.55m below the modern surface. There were no indications of any structures in this area, and the only objects found, fragments of roof-tile, may have been incorporated into the soil from further to the south-west, possibly at the initial stages of the remodelling of the riverbank.
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