County: Louth Site name: TULLYALLEN (6)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0944
Author: Kieran Campbell, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Enclosure and Furnace
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 704978m, N 776257m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.725402, -6.409227
A curving ditch formed the western arc of an enclosure or possible barrow, which had been truncated to the east by motorway excavation work on the Northern Motorway (Drogheda Bypass). This excavation work had also removed the central area of the enclosure, which had an estimated original diameter of 14m. Two arms of the ditch were separated by a gap or entrance 2.5m wide. The northern arm survived to a length of 8m and was 1.3m wide and 0.5m deep. The principal fill of brown, charcoal-flecked, silty clay produced sixteen struck flints. The southern arm, 6m long, 1.9m wide and 0.6m deep, produced 142 flints.
Six metres north of the enclosure, a bowl furnace, 0.47m in diameter and 0.18m deep, was filled with a metallic slag. West of the enclosure an undated gully, 0.8m wide and 0.28m deep, was recorded for a length of 15m.
6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Drogheda
