County: Down Site name: Newry
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW046–042 Licence number: AE/10/185E
Author: Brian Sloan, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 708756m, N 826960m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.180056, -6.333937
Four trenches (each measuring 15m in length by 2m in width) were mechanically excavated in proximity to St Mary’s Church of Ireland, Newry, in advance of the construction of a carpark. The site lies approximately 150m from Bagenal’s Castle, as well as being in the historic core of Newry town. The trenches were excavated to the surface of the natural subsoil, with nothing of archaeological significance being noted.
