County: Louth Site name: Edmondstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH013-006---- Licence number: 14E0059
Author: Kieran Campbell
Site type: Zone of potential for Archaeological Complex
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 690241m, N 796161m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.906966, -6.626639
Test trenches were excavated on 22 February 2014 as part of Archaeological Impact Assessment of a site for a house at Edmondstown, Ardee, to be submitted with an application for planning permission to Louth County Council.
The development site, situated in a 3.25-acre pasture field, was adjacent to, and partially within, the zone of archaeological potential established around LH013-006 ‘Archaeological Complex’ consisting of a holy well, possible souterrain, castle site, architectural fragment, date stone and armorial stone. The boundaries of the field are unchanged from those shown on the 1836 O.S. 1st edition six-inch map. The 1836 and 1909 O.S. maps show a cottage at the north-eastern boundary of the site.
Test trenches recorded natural clay subsoil and shale bedrock under a generally thin (0.25m) covering of topsoil. Other than some sherds of 19th-century earthenware in the topsoil, no archaeological material was evident.
6 St. Ultans, Laytown, Drogheda
