County: Louth Site name: DUNLEER–DUNDALK BYPASS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0475 ext.
Author: Patricia Lynch, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 705759m, N 788600m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.836117, -6.393163
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping and drainage works was carried out on the Dunleer–Dundalk Bypass, in accordance with recommendations made in ‘Dunleer/Dundalk Motorway Project, Environmental Impact Study. Report No. 13. Archaeological impact’ (February 1993).
Under this phase of the monitoring the following townlands were stripped prior to the construction of the motorway, bridge construction, access and slip roads: Shamrock Hill, Mooremount, Cancy, Dromin, Charleville, Braganstown, Drumleck, Wottonstown, Dromiskin, Newrath, Whiterath, Commons, Dunmaho, Haynestown, Gibstown, Crumlin, Mullagharlin, Carnanbregagh and Ballybarrack.
During the course of monitoring, five archaeological features were uncovered. Three were excavated under the monitoring licence. Carnanbregagh (303403 304025) was identified as a subcircular area of burning, ash and burnt bone. Newrath 1 (304041 297018) was identified as an area of burning. Newrath 2 (304093 297156) was identified as an area of burning.
Two excavations were carried out under separate licences: Crumlin 1 (see Excavations 2000, No. 651), a cist burial, and Crumlin 2A, B, and C, (see Excavations 2000 Nos 652–4), identified as three areas of burning.
This monitoring licence was transferred to Cóilín Ó Drisceoil.
Editor’s note: The summary of this excavation, which was carried out during 1998, arrived too late for publication in the bulletin of that year.
112 Cianlea, Swords and Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
