County: Monaghan Site name: MONAGHAN: 15 Glaslough Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 9:41 Licence number: 02E0457
Author: Kieran Campbell
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 667246m, N 833891m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.249445, -6.968138
The site was on the eastern side of Glaslough Street, 90m north of The Diamond at the centre of Monaghan town. No trace of the town defences survives above ground level, but Bradley, in the Urban Archaeological Survey of County Monaghan, suggested certain property boundaries as possible locations. One such boundary on the north-east side of the town runs to within 20m of the present development site. The development consisted of a three-storey extension, measuring 4.5m by 5.4m, to the rear of a one-bay building of 19th-century appearance. A mini-digger was used to excavate trenches on the lines of the proposed foundations. Natural subsoil, a light brown, stony clay, was exposed within 0.12m of the present yard surface, under modern detritus and immediately below a small area of cobbles. At the north-east corner of the extension a subcircular cesspit or earth closet, 1.2m in diameter, produced a sherd of a pearlware plate, from c. 1780–1820, and two sherds of brown-glazed earthenware.
6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Drogheda, Co. Louth
