County: Louth Site name: LOUTH VILLAGE: Mullavally
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH011-115 Licence number: 04E1200
Author: Kieran Campbell
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 696490m, N 801179m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.950927, -6.529979
Pre-development testing took place in August 2004 on a site for a terrace of four houses at the southeastern boundary of the zone of archaeological potential of Louth village (Mullavally townland), the site of an Early Christian period monastery, which became a medieval borough. A 19th-century two-storey house, that had been extensively modernised, and a low two-storey stone vernacular outbuilding occupied the site.
Four test-trenches were excavated in the garden and yard areas of the existing house before demolition. In two garden areas, west and east of the house, garden soil up to 0.7m thick overlay shale bedrock or glacial till. The garden soil consisted of topsoil over soil containing modern crockery, metal, plastic and wood, probably introduced during the modernisation of the house. Natural subsoil was directly under the concrete surface of the yard. Following demolition of the house, the cleared footprint was seen to consist of natural glacial till.
6 St Ultan's, Laytown, Drogheda
