County: Louth Site name: TANKARDSROCK, Dundalk
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 7:30-2 Licence number: 99E0616
Author: Ian Russell, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 700695m, N 808021m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.011582, -6.463679
An assessment was carried out on the site of a proposed dwelling-house and associated groundworks at Tankardsrock, Dundalk, Co. Louth, between 26 and 29 November 1999 to fulfil a condition of the planning permission. The site is within a prehistoric landscape as defined by a number of recorded monuments (a ringfort, SMR 7:30, and two recorded standing stones, SMR 7:31 and 7:32) and is clearly within an area of archaeological potential.
Twelve trenches were excavated in the areas of proposed ground disturbance, to an average depth of 0.7m. In all of the trenches the natural boulder clay was exposed at a consistent depth of 0.25m below the sod and topsoil. A number of 19th–20th-century finds were recovered from the topsoil and from the ploughsoil in Trenches 9 and 11. The site would appear to be devoid of archaeological stratigraphy, as no archaeological features or deposits were evident and no other finds were recovered.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
