2020:553 - TERMONFECKIN: Big Street, Thunderhill Road, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: TERMONFECKIN: Big Street, Thunderhill Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH022-041
Licence number: 20E0109
Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co Louth
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 714229m, N 780517m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.761722, -6.267546
Archaeological test trenching at Big Street, Termonfeckin, Co. Louth, was carried out on 2 March 2020 using a 14-tonne tracked excavator fitted with a toothless grading bucket. A total of two test trenches were excavated across the footprint of the proposed development. Each trench measured 1.8m in width and in total 64m of linear trenches were excavated. The sod and topsoil (C1) consisted of a brown loam and measured 0.5–1.2m in thickness and lay directly above the natural orange sandy clay (C2). No archaeological features or deposits were exposed. No evidence of the house that was depicted on the 1st Edition map of 1834 was exposed within the tested area.
No further archaeological work is recommended.