County: Louth Site name: Ballymakenny Road, Yellowbatter, Drogheda
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 18E0733
Author: Jon Stirland, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Site type: Monitoring - urn cremations
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 709365m, N 777609m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.736644, -6.342310
An archaeological assessment (monitoring) was carried out on a proposed development at Ballymakenny Road, Yellowbatter, Drogheda, Co. Louth. The site comprises an area known as Matthews Land within the North Drogheda Environs Project. This assessment was carried out at the request of Louth County Council.
The monitoring of Phase 1 was carried out in December 2018. During monitoring two pottery vessels associated with cremation burials were exposed. Further fragments from a broken pottery vessel, together with additional cremated bone, were found nearby. Despite topsoil stripping of an additional area around the features, no further archaeological deposits or finds were exposed within Phase 1. Nonetheless, this discovery raises the possibility of further such discoveries during the assessment of the remainder of the proposed development area.
Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co Louth
