2003:1233 - COLLON: John Watters’ Public House, Louth

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth Site name: COLLON: John Watters’ Public House

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1191 ext.

Author: Stephen J. Linnane and David Swift, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 699913m, N 781973m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.777742, -6.484094

Test-trenches were excavated in advance of a proposed development involving buildings to the rear of the public house and the conversion of a small field into a carpark. Five trenches were excavated using a tracked machine equipped with a toothless ditching bucket. No features or deposits of archaeological significance were encountered.

Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth