County: Down Site name: NEWRY: 3–4 Trevor Hill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/07/190
Author: David Kilner and Peter Bowen, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 708691m, N 826772m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.178385, -6.335009
An investigation on the site of a proposed hotel at Trevor Hill in Newry was undertaken as part of a pre-planning assessment. A total of ten trenches were mechanically excavated across two separate areas. In Area 1, located on lower ground adjacent to North Street, Trenches 1–3 were investigated. These showed that the northern half of the area had been severely truncated when a complex of housing executive flats had been built. Towards the southern half of the area a number of post-medieval red-brick and stone walls were uncovered, probably representing the remains of buildings that once fronted onto North Street. In Area 2, located on higher ground to the north, seven trenches (numbers 4–10) were excavated. In these trenches a number of post-medieval furrows and probable field boundaries were uncovered, along with several areas of recent disturbance. No medieval remains or deposits associated with the earlier foundation of Newry were uncovered during the assessment.
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