1999:630 - NEWRATH, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: NEWRATH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 97E0475 ext.
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 6 Riverview, Ardnore, Kilkenny
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 703931m, N 796523m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.907663, -6.418239
A circular pit was discovered during monitoring of topsoil-stripping along the route of the Dunleer–Dundalk Bypass Motorway. Excavation took place on 13 and 25 May 1999 and uncovered an isolated circular pit, 1.25m in diameter x 0.1m, filled with charcoal and burnt stone. No finds were recovered.