County: Down Site name: GREENCASTLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/01/59
Author: Alice Lyall, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 724094m, N 811839m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.040781, -6.105316
The site lay in south Down on the shores of Carlingford Lough. The development was situated on an old raised beach near a motte, SMR 57:1. The site overlooked a sheltered beach and anchorage and was in a direct line between this and the motte. Today to the east of the area are 19th-century Irish Lights cottages. The development area had previously been the gardens of these.
The site was swept with a metal-detector, topsoil-stripped and test-trenched into the beach deposits. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
Unit 6, Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast
