County: Louth Site name: DUNDALK: Demesne/Townparks
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 7:105 (vicinity of) Licence number: 99E0311
Author: Rob Lynch, IAC Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 704404m, N 807478m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.005968, -6.407302
All ground disturbance works associated with the Dundalk Sewerage Scheme, Contract No. 3, were to be monitored. The scheme is a local authority development to be undertaken by Dundalk Urban District Council and includes the construction of foul sewers and surface-water pipelines and required upgrading of the existing sewerage system. The total length of pipeline to be constructed is c. 19,125m, with roughly 230 manholes. Pipe sizes vary from 150mm to 1700mm in diameter. Trenches on average will be up to 2m wide with depths varying from 2m to 6m. The approximate time limit for completion of the scheme is sixty weeks.
To date, the monitoring of pipeline excavations has revealed significant archaeological material, resulting in several programmes of archaeological fieldwork. These are: 99E0312, test-trenching in various locations in Dundalk town centre before pipeline excavations (No. 600, Excavations 1999); 99E0454, excavation of a medieval cobbled road at the western end of the Castletown Road (No. 596, Excavations 1999); 99E0516, test-trenching following the discovery of a cobbled road of unknown date on the Dublin road (No. 601, Excavations 1999); 99E0627, excavation of a cobbled road of unknown date on the Dublin road (No. 602, Excavations 1999); 99E0737, test-trenching in various locations in Dundalk town centre before pipeline excavations-licence suspended until February 2000.
Monitoring of pipeline excavations is ongoing.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
