County: Louth Site name: DILLONSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1099
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 709251m, N 792367m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.869238, -6.338794
The proposed site is c. 70m north-west of the remains of Dillonstown Castle (SMR 15:20), Dunleer, and is bisected by buildings.
Modern farm buildings on the development site were demolished. A two-storey house with associated septic tank and driveway was proposed. The house foundations cut through a concrete layer, exposing a layer of hardcore. A layer of grey silty clay, containing brick, was exposed beneath. This layer was interpreted as a buried garden-soil layer; it was 0.4–0.6m deep. The garden soil overlay a stiff, blue/grey marl subsoil. Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed in the foundation trenches, and no artefacts were found.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
