2014:586 - NEWRY: St Clare’s Primary School, Down
County: Down
Site name: NEWRY: St Clare’s Primary School
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW 046:021
Licence number: AE/14/101
Author: Audrey Gahan, Gahan & Long Ltd
Author/Organisation Address: 7-9 Castlereagh Street, Belfast BT5 4NE
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 708993m, N 826023m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.171592, -6.330647
An archaeological evaluation was conducted prior to the proposed demolition of the monastery building and construction of a new primary school at St Colman’s Abbey Primary School, Courtney Hill, Newry, Co. Down. The proposed development site is located adjacent to DOW 046:021, identified as a Cistercian Abbey.
A series of 9 trenches were monitored within the area of the development. All trenches were excavated with a mechanically digger fitted with a toothless bucket. The site was found to naturally slope from east to west although it had been levelled in the past, cutting into the underlying bedrock.
Nothing of archaeological interest was identified in any of the trenches.
