County: Louth Site name: ARDEE: Brian Muldoon & Sons, Bridge Street/Tierney Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0111
Author: Antoine Giacometti, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 696210m, N 790434m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.854449, -6.537619
A programe of monitoring and assessment was carried out for an extension at the rear of a public house, Brian Muldoon & Sons, in February 2006. The development site was situated near the centre of the historic town of Ardee (LH017–101). Ardee was established in the 13th century and the present street pattern was probably established in the late medieval period.
The earliest material found in the monitoring programme was 19th-century floor surfaces (at 0.85m below the present ground level), probably belonging to buildings depicted at the site on the first-edition 6-inch OS map of 1835. Layers relating to the destruction of these buildings, possibly by fire, were found. An organic-rich layer separated this activity from a later phase of demolition of brick and stone structures that probably dated to the 20th century.
No significant archaeological material was noted, but, as the excavation did not reach natural subsoil, it is possible that earlier material is present below the level reached in the excavation.
32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
