County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: 71 Narrow West Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0256
Author: Brian Shanahan, for Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 708522m, N 775264m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.715760, -6.355893
Monitoring of groundworks was required as a condition of a grant of planning permission for the conversion of the standing street-front premises into two apartments. This involved the insertion of a two-storey steel staircase set on a concrete raft (4.8m by 2m) in the yard to the rear of the existing building. Excavations proceeded to a depth of 0.5m. Yard deposits consisted of tarmac set on beige/brown mortar-rich clay containing plastic and red brick (0.3m thick), which sat on a cobbled yard surface (0.1m thick) likely to be coeval with the house. Mortar-covered beige/yellow mixed clay was exposed at the build level (0.5m deep). This clay appeared to be redeposited but contained no datable artefacts. It was truncated in the southern half of the foundation trench by a Victorian ceramic drain and a modern plastic drain. No finds of archaeological significance were recovered.
Unit 4, Dundrum Business Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14
