County: Louth Site name: Carrickcarnan/Drumad/Feede/ Drumnacarra/Drumnasillagh/Aghnaskeagh/Proleek/Plaster/Faughart Lower
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A002/124; E3808
Author: Cia McConway, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Unit 6, 21 Old Channel Road, Belfast.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 706899m, N 819543m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.113832, -6.365009
Louth County Council, the Roads Service NI (Department for Regional Development) and the National Roads Authority are currently proposing a road scheme, the A1/N1 Newry–Dundalk road. The route consists of 14.2km of 2-lane dual carriageway with 5.7km of associated link roads from Cloghoge roundabout, south of Newry, to the Ballymascanlan interchange, north of Dundalk.
Monitoring was carried out in advance of construction and in tandem with the resolution of sites uncovered during the Phase 1 testing. One new area of archaeological potential was uncovered, A002/123 (see above No. 811), but, on investigation, this proved to be non-archaeological.
Editor’s note: This report arrived too late for inclusion in the bulletin for 2005, when the work took place.
