County: Armagh Site name: A1/N1 Cloghoge–Newtown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/05/56
Author: Giles Dawkes, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 707467m, N 821251m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.129055, -6.355714
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 south from the Cloghoge roundabout at Newry 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. The route within Northern Ireland was stripped of topsoil, with no archaeological deposits uncovered.
Unit 6, 21 Old Channel Road, Belfast, BT3 9DE
