2016:829 - GRANGE IRISH/MONKSLAND, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: GRANGE IRISH/MONKSLAND
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 16E0503
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Author/Organisation Address: Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 719760m, N 808484m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.011668, -6.172780
Cooley Kickhams GFC was granted planning permission for a new playing pitch and associated site works. Monitoring of ground works was required in the planning grant.
The new pitch was built to the north-west of the existing pitch. LH008-067, classified as an ‘earthwork’, lies to the south of the location of the new pitch.
Soil-stripping was carried out over a period of five days. A tracked machine fitted with a grading bucket was used for the stripping which was carried out over nearly the entire area of two fields. Nothing was revealed during soil stripping other than the remains of a drain along the north-eastern boundary and evidence for burning of vegetation in the west end of the eastern field.