County: Louth Site name: Area 51, Mansfieldstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 05E1279
Author: Damien Finn, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 702697m, N 795731m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.900787, -6.437289
Testing was conducted at Area 51, Mansfieldstown, Castlebellingham, in advance of construction works on the south–north gas pipeline on 4 January 2006. Testing was based on the results of the EIS carried out in 2004. Two trenches measuring 30m by 1.6m were excavated using a mechanical excavator fitted with a 1.6m-wide ditching bucket. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered in either of the trenches.
