County: Louth Site name: CARLINGFORD: Castle Hill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0706
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 718667m, N 811920m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.042782, -6.188097
Monitoring was carried out on the site of a proposed two-storey mews dwelling-house and gateway at Castle Hill, Carlingford, Co. Louth, on 27 and 28 September 2000. It is proposed to demolish an existing stone shed.
The area to the east of the site had been lowered to road level during the construction of the stone garage, with the result that the ground level to the rear was c. 0.3m higher than the garage floor level. The monitoring revealed that a thin layer of 17th–18th-century orange clay survived beneath two layers of 20th-century clay and topsoil. The lower layer had been partially cut by the construction of the stone garage, the 19th-century shed and the laneway wall to the north and lay directly above the natural sand and gravel.
No archaeological features or deposits were exposed, and all the finds recovered date from the 17th century onwards. Consequently, no further work is required.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
