County: Louth Site name: BACK LANE/NEWRY STREET, CARLINGFORD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1371
Author: Ian R. Russell, Archaeological Consultancy Services, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 718742m, N 811909m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.042669, -6.186954
Monitoring was conducted on the site of a proposed residential development at Back Lane/Newry Street, Carlingford. Two assessments previously carried out within the site had identified a number of post-medieval stone walls. No archaeological features or deposits were exposed.
Monitoring was conducted of topsoil-stripping and the excavation of foundation trenches. The coarse black garden soil measured a maximum of 0.35m in thickness and lay directly above the natural orange gravelly and stony clay. No archaeological features or deposits were exposed and no finds were recovered.
