County: Louth Site name: Faughart Lower
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH004–025001 Licence number: 08E0381
Author: Kieran Campbell, 6 St. Ultans, Laytown, Drogheda.
Site type: Vicinity of ringfort
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 705063m, N 812379m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.049857, -6.395557
Test-trenches were excavated in May 2008 on a site for a house and garage in fulfilment of a condition of planning permission. The development site was immediately adjacent to the site of a bivallate ringfort levelled in the 1970s. The northern arc of the vanished bank overlapped with the southernmost corner of the large development site but this area was not due to be disturbed by the groundworks. A souterrain reportedly ran north-east from the interior of the ringfort (CLAHJ 1966). The present landowner stated that the banks of the ringfort had been composed of clay, without stone revetting, and not boulders of which the field boundaries in the area are generally composed. Test-trenches, excavated by a small tracked excavator, uncovered only natural subsoil, orange/brown stony clay, under topsoil 0.3–0.4m deep.
