1999:624 - FAUGHART UPPER, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: FAUGHART UPPER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 4:38
Licence number: 98E0541
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 705845m, N 812458m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.050402, -6.383603
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping for a proposed residential development was conducted on this site, which is at the bottom of the east slope of Faughart Hill, on which stands the significant Early Christian monastic foundation of St Brigid. It is close to two ringforts.
Stripping by mechanical excavation revealed sod and topsoil coming down directly onto shelly boulder clay at average depths of 0.15–0.3m. No archaeological features were exposed, and no finds were made.