2016:010 - PIPERSTOWN, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: PIPERSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH021-024
Licence number: 15E0441
Author: Carmel Duffy
Author/Organisation Address: Umberstown Great, Co. Meath
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 708225m, N 782745m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.783016, -6.357782
Monitoring of the groundworks in advance of the construction of a road for forest harvesting was carried out at Piperstown, Co. Louth, in October and November 2015. The total length of the road was 884m. The site is located in the vicinity of a complex of medieval monuments. Tress were felled in a corridor 20m wide, the topsoil strip was 5m wide and a drainage trench was excavated along the side of the roadway. The soil profile in general was 0.3–0.4m of silty clay; in places where there was a slope, the excavation went to 0.6m deep. No material of an archaeological nature was disclosed by the monitor.