2011:426 - GIBSTOWN/STEPHENSTOWN, Louth

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth Site name: GIBSTOWN/STEPHENSTOWN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0438

Author: Rob O’Hara

Site type: Testing

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 701349m, N 801751m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.955126, -6.455793

Stage (i) test excavations were carried out on the proposed realignment of the N52 between Gibstown and Stephenstown Bridge on behalf of Louth County Council. A total of 31 trenches, amounting to 2,110 linear metres, were excavated along the scheme (chainage 200–1625). All trenches were excavated to the level of subsoil. No archaeological finds or features were recorded.

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