County: Louth Site name: PLASTER/FAUGHART UPPER/FAUGHART LOWER (Area 14)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A002/000, A002/005
Author: Eoin Halpin, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30-50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 706986m, N 811861m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.044810, -6.366392
Archaeological assessment was undertaken along the proposed A1/N1 Newry–Dundalk link road, having been commissioned by DRD Roads Service. Archaeological evaluation was carried out along a number of locations highlighted in the EIA as areas of high archaeological potential. Testing was carried out in Area 14 within Plaster, Faughart Upper and Faughart Lower townlands between Chainages 12650 and 13200; 3362m2 of trenches were investigated, which is 15.3% of the total area.
Five isolated features, consisting of charcoal-flecked brown soil, were uncovered during this testing. While the dates and functions of these features remain unresolved, they represent, at the very least, previously unrecorded human activity in the area and may prove to be of antiquity, given the archaeological ambience of the area.
