County: Louth Site name: ARDEE (Area 10)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 14:43 Licence number: 02E1745
Author: David Bayley, for IAC Ltd.
Site type: Enclosure, Field system, Pit and Burial
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 696046m, N 790784m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.857623, -6.540001
Testing took place of two route options for the proposed N52 Ardee Bypass where they pass through a medieval, D-shaped enclosure that contains a cemetery. The eastern end of the test area was in both route options. In this area a single east–west inhumation burial in a possible stone-lined grave, two circular pits and a possible wall foundation were recorded.
The northern route option contained very little of archaeological significance, with only a small area of post-medieval cobbled surface recorded. Testing of the southern route option yielded nineteen potential inhumation burials, three pit-type features and nineteen linear and curvilinear ditch-type features. Most of these linear features tie in with a multiple-ditched enclosure and associated field systems that were highlighted during geophysical testing of the site area.
123 Roselawn Road, Castleknock, Dublin 15
