County: Louth Site name: DUNDALK: Castletown Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 7:118 Licence number: 00E0038
Author: Tim Coughlan, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 703690m, N 808379m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.014202, -6.417877
Monitoring took place of all ground disturbance works associated with the reinstatement of Castletown Road as part of the Dundalk Sewerage Scheme, Contract No. 3. The scheme is a local authority development undertaken by Dundalk Urban District Council and includes the construction of foul sewers and surface-water pipelines required for upgrading of the existing sewerage system. The entire length of Castletown Road is being upgraded and reinstated as part of the scheme. Because a number of cobbled surfaces of varying dates had been identified along the route by Rob Lynch during 1999 (Excavations 1999, 208, 210–11, 99E0545, 99E0516 and 99E0627), a separate licence was issued for the monitoring of excavations on this route, with licence 99E0311 being retained for the monitoring of the rest of the scheme.
This work was directed by Robert Lynch until June 2000, when Tim Coughlan took charge. Since June, nothing of archaeological interest has been recorded during these monitoring works.
Monitoring of pipeline excavations is ongoing.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
