County: Louth Site name: JENKINSTOWN–GRANGE IRISH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1218
Author: Finola O’Carroll, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 710732m, N 808748m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.016056, -6.310352
Pre-development testing was undertaken prior to the development of a low-voltage ESB power line from Jenkinstown townland to Grange Irish townland, Cooley Peninsula, Co. Louth. The work was undertaken on foot of an archaeological assessment of the area by CRDS Ltd, which highlighted a number of areas of archaeological potential along the route. It was recommended that a number of pole positions be tested owing to their close proximity to known or suspected sites, or as they were in areas where there was a greater potential for archaeological remains to be encountered. It was also recommended that additional testing of a sample of the remaining pole positions be undertaken, and that a previously unrecorded midden identified during field survey be recorded in full.
Sixteen pole positions were tested by the hand excavation of 1m by 1m test-pits. The soil profiles were recorded for each test-pit and varied considerably from peat to marl to boulder clay. Nothing of archaeological interest was recorded in any of the test-pits.
The midden was recorded fully in section. It contained post-medieval pottery.
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