County: Monaghan Site name: Teerkenan, Monaghan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0540
Author: Margaret McCarthy, Archaeological Consultant, Rostellan, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 667407m, N 833483m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.245754, -6.965757
A test excavation was carried out at the junction of Broad Street and Dawson Street just outside the constraint zone of the historic town of Monaghan (MO009–060). The site is scheduled for development as a temporary carpark. The eastern and southern areas of the property are within the working area of a crane-hire yard and the surface here was made up of modern hardcore. The northern end of the site had been severely disturbed during the widening of Broad Street in the 1990s.
Four test-trenches were opened and the soil profile did not vary significantly between the individual areas investigated. The modern hardcore covering most of the development site reached a maximum depth of 0.8m. Beneath this was a layer of mid- to dark-brown organic sediment containing modern brick, bottles, metal and wood. This infill layer measured 1.6m in depth and its removal exposed grey marl, which is frequently stratified beneath peat deposits. The test-trench excavated at the north-west corner of the site contained a deep layer of peat overlying the natural grey marl. Nothing of archaeological significance was encountered in any of the excavated areas.
