County: Louth Site name: Monasterboice
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0896
Author: Fiona Rooney, Arch Consultancy Ltd, Ballydavid South, Athenry, Co. Galway.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 704357m, N 783157m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.787513, -6.416300
Pre-development testing was carried out at the proposed site of a dwelling house at Monasterboice, Drogheda, Co. Louth. The proposed development is located at the edge of the area of conservation around the Early Christian monastic settlement (LH021–062). Four test-trenches were mechanically excavated revealing no artefacts or features of archaeological significance. The stratigraphy encountered revealed the sod and topsoil coming down onto the natural yellow/grey marl clay. In the south of the proposed site modern drains were revealed cutting into the subsoil and natural layers.
