County: Louth Site name: DUNDALK: XEROX/ESB Electricity Substation, Mullagharlin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Dermot G. Moore, ADS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 704512m, N 806587m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.997945, -6.405957
Owing to the construction of an Electricity Substation for Xerox Limited by Uniform Construction Limited, a large area, comprising c. 32,000m2, was to be topsoil-stripped before any building work began on the site. As the site is within an area of high archaeological potential—a number of souterrains have been noted in the surrounding area—it was suggested that monitoring of the topsoil-stripping be undertaken to find and define archaeological activity, if any, on the site.
The topsoil was stripped by a large-tracked machine (Hymac) and by bulldozer. It was then banked up in large spoilheaps that would eventually be used to create large, landscaped berms around the proposed building. Investigation of the topsoil, which had a variable depth of 0.2-0.3m, and the exposed orange, slaty, gravelly subsoil, yielded no subsoil-cut archaeological features.
Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered during the topsoil-stripping, and development was able to proceed.
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