County: Louth Site name: Back Lane/Newry Street, Carlingford
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1371
Author: Ian R. Russell, Archaeological Consultancy Services, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 718742m, N 811909m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.042669, -6.186954
No archaeological features or deposits were exposed on site during monitoring. No evidence for any structures was exposed either facing on to Newry Street or Back Lane. The garden soil was extensive over all of the site and quite deep in places, extending to a maximum depth of 0.7m, which would strongly suggest that the site was utilised for an agricultural use rather than residential. Similarly no archaeological features or deposits were exposed in the test-trench (Trench 9) excavated in the adjacent plot to the south. The same loose brown garden soil was exposed in this trench also, again suggesting an agricultural rather that a residential function for this area. The field drain exposed within this trench is also likely to be the same as the linear gully exposed in Trench 6 to the north-east.
