County: Louth Site name: Littlegrange
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 17E0219
Author: Niall Colfer, Archaeology and Built Heritage
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 701788m, N 775234m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.716842, -6.457891
Testing was undertaken in advance of both commercial and residential development at a site known as Marry’s Pig Farm, located in the townland of Littlegrange, County Louth, to the south of the N51 and to the north of the Mattock River. The site is more particularly located inside the official buffer zone surrounding the UNESCO World Heritage site of Brú na Bóinne and can be seen from the megalithic passage tomb at Dowth.
No archaeological deposits, features or artefacts were discovered during test trenching at Littlegrange. As evidenced by the large spoil heap at the southern end of the site, the majority of the topsoil had been scarped from the area when the piggery was first constructed in an effort to reduce and flatten ground level, thus removing archaeological structures/deposits that might have been located on the site.
The remaining topsoil was very shallow and heavily disturbed. No archaeological features were cut into natural subsoil within the trenches.
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