1999:605 - DUNDALK: 59 Dublin Street, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: DUNDALK: 59 Dublin Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 99E0661
Author: Finola O'Carroll, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 704517m, N 806828m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.000102, -6.405810
Monitoring took place during the excavation of foundation trenches for an 8m-by-5m extension to the rear of a c. 1930s red brick terraced house. The site is outside the late medieval suburb of Upper End, c. 30m south of the site of the Dublin Gate as determined by Gosling (1995).
Trenches, 0.9m wide and 0.6m deep, were excavated for the north, east and south walls of the extension, through black garden soil that produced pottery of 20th-century date at all levels. Stone paving slabs, uncovered at a depth of 0.44m in the northern trench and left in situ, probably relate to the previous house on the site. Natural subsoil, a greenish-grey clay, was exposed at a depth of 0.55m in the southern trench.
Reference
Gosling, P. 1995 From Dún Delca to Dundalk. Monaghan.