County: Louth Site name: 15 WOLFE TONE TERRACE, DUNDALK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 7:119 Licence number: 04E0695
Author: Kieran Campbell, 6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Co. Meath.
Site type: Post-medieval urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 704765m, N 807940m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.010045, -6.401635
Test-pits on a site for an extension to a terraced house, postponed from 2004, took place in September 2005. The site is within the area of the medieval town, c. 80m south of the presumed line of the medieval defences, which ran along the old shoreline at the south end of the present Fair Green. In two of the hand-dug test-pits natural clay subsoil was reached at a depth of 1.25m under rubble from the previous houses on the site, demolished in 1950, and old garden soil with 19th–20th-century crockery. In the third test-pit, excavation was conducted through 1m of garden soil and 0.45m of stone and brick rubble without reaching subsoil and was halted at this depth, which was below the level required for the single extension.
