2015:138 - DUNDALK: St Mary’s College, Townparks Upper, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: DUNDALK: St Mary’s College, Townparks Upper
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 15E0346
Author: Brian Halpin, Alison McQueen and Associates
Author/Organisation Address: Glencar, Killorglin, Co. Kerry
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 704926m, N 807838m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.009092, -6.399226
An excavation was carried out on a brownfield site prior to the development of a new school and facilities in urban Dundalk. Two small pits with remnants of medieval pottery were encountered. Additionally, a metalled surface believed to be post-mediaeval in date was also encountered. This surface contained various pits, trenches and features believed to of late 19th /early 20th-century date.