County: Louth Site name: ‘WATERSIDE INN’, Termonfeckin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0126
Author: Ian Russell, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 713219m, N 781008m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.766354, -6.282665
An archaeological assessment was carried out at the ‘Waterside Inn’, Termonfeckin, Co. Louth, on 5 April 2000. It is proposed to construct a 40-bed hotel, dining hall and wastewater treatment system, together with associated driveway and carparking facilities.
Six trenches were excavated by machine within the area of the proposed development. The natural gravel and stone were exposed at an average depth of 0.6m. All the finds recovered from the topsoil and the subsoil were post-medieval in date. However, the presence of a single late medieval sherd from the subsoil in Trench 1 suggests that medieval stratigraphy may have existed on the site or closeby. Unlicensed rescue excavations in 1991 in the property immediately to the north revealed a medieval cobbled surface above natural boulder clay. The presence of residual medieval pottery sherds is therefore not surprising. No archaeological features or deposits were exposed in any of the six trial-trenches excavated on the site, and no further work is considered necessary subject to the approval of Dúchas The Heritage Service and Louth County Council. There will be no visual impact on any upstanding monuments, as all of these are outside the visual range of the site.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
