County: Louth Site name: TERMONFECKIN: Waterside Inn
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 22:41 Licence number: 01E1083
Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 713219m, N 781008m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.766354, -6.282665
An assessment was carried out on a proposed commercial development site at the Waterside Inn, Termonfeckin, Co. Louth. The development involves the demolition of the yard wall and the north wall of the stores and the subsequent construction of a restaurant. The site is within the zone of archaeological potential for Termonfeckin shrunken medieval town and is directly across the river from the Archbishop’s Palace.
A single test-trench was excavated within the proposed development site. No finds were retrieved and no features of archaeological significance were exposed. The walls which are to be demolished were constructed at some stage in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as they are not visible on the 1737 print of Termonfeckin (artist unknown) or on Grose’s drawing of the Archbishop’s Palace in 1793. Buildings are, however, visible within the area of the proposed development on the first edition of the OS map of 1835. These buildings were slightly altered by the time the OS 1867 map was produced and appear more or less as they do today.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
