County: Louth Site name: 57 Rope Walk, Drogheda
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0287
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Company Ltd, Consultant Archaeologists, 11 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 708784m, N 775505m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.717874, -6.351845
The site was located within the medieval town of Drogheda, LH024–041. Rope Walk feeds on to Magdalene Street, which was an important medieval thoroughfare. It was the main street leading to the gate of the town, and dates to the mid-13th century. Its present alignment seems relatively unchanged from that shown on early maps.
The development involved the demolition of modern buildings and the construction of a two-storey office block with a ground-level carpark to the rear of No. 57. The subsurface works comprised the removal of topsoil and debris and the digging of foundation trenches throughout the site. Monitoring of the subsurface works in March 2007 revealed no deposits or artefacts of archaeological significance.
