County: Louth Site name: DUNDALK: Demesne/Townparks
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 7:105 (vicinity of) Licence number: 99E0311
Author: Rob Lynch, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 704010m, N 806854m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.000447, -6.413521
Monitoring took place of all ground disturbance works associated with 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 during the upgrading of the existing sewerage system. The total length of pipeline to be constructed is about 19,125m, with roughly 230 manholes. Pipe sizes vary from 150mm to 1700mm in diameter. On average, trenches will measure 2m in width, with depths varying from 2m to 6m. The approximate time limit for completion of the scheme is 60 weeks.
To date, the monitoring of pipeline excavations has revealed significant archaeological material, resulting in several programmes of archaeological fieldwork, as follows.
99E0312: test-trenching in various locations in Dundalk town centre in advance of pipeline excavations (Excavations 1999, 209–10).
99E0454: excavation of a medieval cobbled road located at the western end of Castletown Road (Excavations 1999, 208, and Excavations 2000, No. 668).
99E0516: test-trenching following the discovery of a cobbled road of unknown date on the Dublin Road (Excavations 1999, 210).
99E0627: excavation of a cobbled road of unknown date on the Dublin Road (Excavations 1999, 210–11).
99E0737: test-trenching in various locations in Dundalk town centre in advance of pipeline excavations (see Excavations 2000, No. 680).
Monitoring of pipeline excavations is ongoing.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
