2012:425 - Vincent’s School, Seatown Place/Mill Street, Dundalk, Louth

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth Site name: Vincent’s School, Seatown Place/Mill Street, Dundalk

Sites and Monuments Record No.: 12E330 Licence number:

Author: Antoine Giacometti

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 705398m, N 807492m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.005884, -6.392155

A programme of monitoring took place in October 2012 at St Vincent’s School, Seatown Place/Mill Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth, just to the east of the town centre (Townparks townland, Upper Dundalk). The work comprised the construction of a single-storey art-room (15m north-south by 8m) and associated services at the rear of the school canteen.
The monitoring programme identified foundations and construction levels associated with the construction of St Vincent’s School in 1900, as well as a system of contemporary ceramic pipes and service boxes. These were all cut into a layer of organic soft black silt containing rare inclusions of red brick, mortar shell, animal bone but no pottery that predated the school. The black silt, c. 1m thick, lay directly over loose grey gravels, greyish-yellow and stones representing natural estuary deposits. The stratigraphy matches the results of a test-trench excavated by Kieran Campbell at the School in 2004 (Excavations 2004, No. 1105, 04E0206).

Archaeology Plan, 32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2.