County: Louth Site name: Drumnasillagh 3
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A002/107; E3792
Author: Caroline Powell, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Modern agricultural features
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 707739m, N 813824m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.062282, -6.354205
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. As part of the road development a number of archaeological and historic sites within the construction zone of the road scheme were determined eligible for excavation before the construction began.
At this location, one thin spread and one large pit were excavated. Both are thought to have resulted from modern farming activities associated with an adjacent farmhouse.
Editor’s note: This report arrived too late for inclusion in the bulletin for 2005, when the work took place.
