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

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth Site name: John Watters’Public House, Collon

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

Author: Stephen J. Linnane and David Swift, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

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.