County: Louth Site name: DOWDALLSHILL AND REDCOW, DUNDALK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0086
Author: James Kyle, with Faith Bailey, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120b Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 706025m, N 809731m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.025871, -6.381800
Testing was undertaken in advance of Phase 1 of a proposed retail and leisure development within the townlands of Redcow and Dowdallshill, Dundalk, Co. Louth. This followed on from a geophysical survey of the area undertaken by Target Archaeological Geophysics for IAC Ltd (licence 09R9). No definite features of archaeological origin were identified during this survey.
Test-trenching took place during March 2009, using a 10-tonne mechanical excavator equipped with a flat, toothless bucket. A total of 130 test-trenches (totalling 5101 linear metres), thirteen geophysical test-trenches (totalling 322 linear metres) and six test-pits were excavated across the proposed development area. The development area is currently formed by eight green fields located to the immediate north-east of Dundalk Stadium and racetrack and to the west of Dundalk Bay. Although the proposed development area is located within a landscape that is characterised by significant prehistoric archaeological remains, no features of archaeological significance were discovered during testing.
