County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA STREET, COLLON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0809
Author: Maurice F. Hurley, 6 Clarence Court, St Luke
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
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.
