County: Louth Site name: DUNDALK: Bellews Bridge
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0689
Author: Markus Casey, for Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 704512m, N 806587m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.997945, -6.405957
Test excavations in advance of a housing development, which consisted of a series of thirteen 60m-long trenches covering a 28-acre greenfield site outside Dundalk along the Castletown River, revealed no features, levels or artefacts of archaeological or historical value. Two fragments of cut limestone and several 19th- or 20th-century objects found in the vicinity of the demolished Salttown House may have originated from there. The large size of the area not excavated during the trial excavation prompts the recommendation of further monitoring of soil-stripping during the initial phases of the proposed development.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
