2019:806 - NEWRY CANAL: Lock 5, Carnbane, Armagh
County: Armagh
Site name: NEWRY CANAL: Lock 5, Carnbane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: IHR 00172:036:00
Licence number: AE/19/024
Author: Stephen Gilmore, NAC Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY
Site type: Canal
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 707427m, N 829371m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.201989, -6.353441
The watching brief was undertaken to fulfil part of the requirements of the Scheduled Monument Consent that was issued to allow repair works to be undertaken on the lock.
Following the collapse of a retaining wall that formed part of the make-up of the lock, work was required to remove the collapsed section of wall, number the stones from the collapse so that they could be used for the reconstruction of the wall and to excavate the foundations of the collapsed section of wall to investigate construction techniques.