County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: 11 Palace Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0088
Author: Matthew Seaver for Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 709107m, N 775345m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.716365, -6.347007
Testing was carried out at 11 Palace Street, Drogheda, before a proposed residential development. This small site, 6.5m east-west by 6.1m, is just outside the line of the medieval town wall. Three trenches were dug in the site. A concrete floor was removed in all trenches.
In Trench 1 this overlay cobbles that in turn overlay several layers of building debris up to 1.5m thick, containing red brick fragments and 17th–18th-century pottery. These overlay a hard mortar floor.
Trench 2 was in the west of the building. The concrete overlay a dark brown loam containing mortar flecks that was up to 0.2m deep. Below this was red brick rubble in brown, sticky clay up to 0.46m deep. It overlay a hard mortar floor.
The third trench was in the south of the building. The concrete floor overlay sandy clay containing red brick fragments, mortar and uncut limestone up to 0.06m thick. Below this was thick mortar and red brick up to 0.1m thick. It overlay dark brown loam containing mortar flecks up to 0.14m thick. These overlay a layer of light brown sand and gravel containing mortar flecks and roughly cut limestone up to 0.21m thick. Nineteenth-century pottery was found in this layer. This sat on the hard mortar floor.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
