County: Louth Site name: KNOCKNAGORAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 5:9 Licence number: 05E0527
Author: Kieran Campbell, 6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Co. Meath.
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 713477m, N 816323m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.083500, -6.265649
An archaeological condition was attached to this development at Knocknagoran, Omeath, because of its proximity to an extant ringfort situated 50m to the south-west. Test-trenches were excavated by machine on the site for a house where a cottage, shown on the first-edition OS map of 1836, had recently been demolished. The test-trenches exposed natural till at depths ranging from 0.05 to 0.4m, under black garden soil containing material mostly of late 19th- and 20th-century date. Finds from garden soil and rubbish pits associated with the old house included a clay pipe bowl with a ‘DUBLIN’ stamp and a sherd from the rim of a dish, glazed yellow with wavy-line sgraffito decoration, probably a product of the local earthenware industry operating at Rockmarshall and Bellurgan from the 18th century to c. 1850.
