County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: Penny's, Meat Market Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH024-041107 Licence number: 03E0823 ext.
Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 708771m, N 775007m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.713400, -6.352213
This site was excavated in association with a large development which fronts onto Meat Market Lane and Dyer Street, Drogheda. This portion of the development was immediately north-east of the area excavated between June and August 2003 (Excavations 2003, No. 1242). It was located in the carpark to the rear of buildings, which front onto Dyer Street. Three walls, the remains of a cobbled surface, a layer of slate and garden soil were exposed.
Buildings were depicted within this approximate location on Goche's sketch of Drogheda (1574). This map is not to scale, so the position of the buildings is not accurate. No buildings were depicted here on Newcomen's or Ravell's map of Drogheda (1657 and 1749 respectively). The manuscript town plan of 1835 and the OS map of 1933, however, depict buildings at this location.
All of the features identified were post-medieval to modern, as indicated by the use of red brick in the construction of the walls and the recovery of post-medieval to modern finds from all features, including the garden soil. All features are indicative of settlement in the urban centre of Drogheda during the post-medieval to modern period.
Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth
