2015:138 - St Mary’s College, Townparks Upper, Dundalk, Louth

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth Site name: St Mary’s College, Townparks Upper, Dundalk

Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 15E0346

Author: Brian Halpin

Site type: Medieval/ post-medieval

Period/Dating:

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.

Alison McQueen and Associates, Glencar, Killorglin, Co. Kerry.