County: Armagh Site name: CLOGHOGE/NEWTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/05/56
Author: Giles Dawkes, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 708518m, N 823352m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.147697, -6.338895
Archaeological supervision of topsoil removal along the northern stretch of the new A1-N1 link road between Dundalk and Newry has been ongoing, albeit intermittently, since August 2005. The northern stretch of the link road runs from the Cloghoge roundabout for c. 4.6km until it crosses the border into Co. Louth. The topography varies from lower-lying, poorly drained boggy ground, to high rocky ground where the road runs across the eastern slope of the Cloghoge Mountain at the northern extent of the road. Much of the route within Northern Ireland has now been stripped of topsoil, with no archaeological deposits having been uncovered at the time of writing. The work is still ongoing, with the final portion of the road to be stripped during the spring of 2007.
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