County: Louth Site name: DUNDALK: Demesne/Townparks
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 7:105 (vicinity of) Licence number: 99E0311
Author: Tim Coughlan, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 704404m, N 807478m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.005968, -6.407302
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 for the upgrading 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. Trench widths on average will be up to 2m wide, with depths varying from 2m to 6m. The approximate time limit for completion of the scheme is 60 weeks.
This work was directed by Robert Lynch until June 2000, when Tim Coughlan took charge. Since June 2000, there have only been two areas of archaeological interest identified. One was a roadway built of large, square-cut limestone cobbles at the western end of Patrick Street, which was dated to the early part of the 20th century and was identified directly beneath the present road surface. The second was at the eastern end of Patrick Street, where a series of walls and cobbled surfaces associated with 18th/19th-century industrial workshops was recorded in a 0.6m-wide trench dug in advance of pipe-laying.
Monitoring of pipeline excavations is ongoing.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
