County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA: Scotch Hall, Lagavooren
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH024-041 Licence number: 03E0688
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 709872m, N 774878m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.712006, -6.335598
A small amount of additional monitoring took place at this site this year, when service trenches were being dug (see Excavations 2003, No. 1239, for earlier work on this site). One trench ran parallel to the riverbank and then turned southwards to meet the Marsh Road. This mostly cut through disturbed layers with demolition rubble, probably of 19th–20th-century date, but three stone walls were encountered. Further stone walls were found in a trench which followed the line of James’s Street to the Bull Ring junction. These ran at right angles to the line of the road. Here, grey silt with medieval pottery was found at c. 1.5m depth. At the Bull Ring itself, nothing of archaeological significance was found; the fill was very recent.
Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
