2000:0705 - NEWTOWN–MONASTERBOICE (Site 6), Louth

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth Site name: NEWTOWN–MONASTERBOICE (Site 6)

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number:

Author: Kieran Campbell, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.

Site type: Fulacht fia

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 704870m, N 781389m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.771523, -6.409122

A deposit of burnt mound material, 5m long and 0.15m thick, was recorded in the side of a contractor’s trench dug for the purpose of rerouting a cable on the Northern Motorway (Drogheda Bypass).

6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Drogheda