County: Louth Site name: MAIN STREET LOWER, DUNLEER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 18:64 Licence number: 05E1361
Author: Kieran Campbell, 6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Co. Meath.
Site type: Post-medieval urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 705751m, N 788233m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.832825, -6.393420
The site of an extension to a house was 40m north-west of the graveyard wall of the Dunleer Church of Ireland church, the possible site of the Early Christian monastery of Lann Léire founded by St Forodran in the 6th or 7th century. Monitoring of the excavation of foundation trenches by mini-digger recorded only garden soil with 20th-century finds over natural subsoil, very stony grey clay, at a depth of 0.5m.
