County: Louth Site name: KILCURLY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1276
Author: Damien Finn, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 701079m, N 806450m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.997398, -6.458346
A test excavation was conducted near Kilcurly House, Kilcurly, Dundalk, Co. Louth, on 20 December 2005. The site, AR54, is located on the route of the North/South Gas Pipeline. It was identified during the EIA from aerial photographs taken on the proposed pipeline route corridor, where it is visible as a large depression in the field. The hollow is quite visible on the ground, where it is further defined by marshy ground in its interior. It is c. 70m long from north-east to south-west and c. 30m wide. A tree ring is located 100m to the east. These features looked natural, but as there is a concentration of archaeological sites in the area they should be considered as potentially archaeological sites. Two 30m-long trenches were excavated across the site along the route of the pipeline. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered in either of the trenches.
