County: Louth Site name: DUNDALK: 80 Dublin Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0160
Author: Matthew Seaver for Archaeological Consultancy Services
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 704359m, N 806860m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.000428, -6.408196
An assessment was carried out at 80 Dublin Street, Dundalk, before a proposed commercial development. The site is within the area of archaeological importance defined by the Urban Archaeological Survey, and archaeological investigation was required as a condition of planning permission. The site was a narrow plot, only 4m wide.
After demolition of the existing 19th-century building two test-trenches were opened on the proposed north and south foundation walls in March 1999. Both were 15m long and 1m wide. A layer of modern demolition waste up to 0.18m thick was removed from Trench 1 and overlay a layer of light brown clay up to 0.29m deep, which contained 18th-century pottery. This overlay a sterile, grey gravel and sand. In the centre of the trench a modern ceramic sewer pipe had heavily disturbed these deposits. Trench 2 revealed the same stratigraphical sequence. No deposits of archaeological significance were encountered, and it appeared that post-medieval activity had removed any traces of medieval activity.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
