2004:1075 - COLLON: Drogheda Street, Louth

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth Site name: COLLON: Drogheda Street

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0809

Author: Maurice F. Hurley

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 700098m, N 781997m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.777931, -6.481285

Planning permission was granted for the construction of an extension to a public house at Drogheda Street, Collon, Co. Louth. The site was within the zone of archaeological potential for Collon, which was the site of a medieval borough founded by the Abbots of Melifont and formed part of the 'manor of Collon'. To date, no remains pre-dating AD 1700 have been found in the village.

Two parallel trenches were excavated in a north-south direction in the back yard of the public house. The testing revealed archaeologically sterile layers of clay underlying the modern yard surface. No finds or features of archaeological significance were recorded.

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