2022:134 - George's Street, Drogheda, Louth

Test excavations were undertaken in response to a condition of planning permission. Six trenches were excavated over a two-day period at a site on 26, 28, 29, 30 and 31 George’s Street, Drogheda and lands to the rear known as Swan’s Yard. Located outside but in proximity to the medieval town of Drogheda, no features of archaeological significance were identified during the course of testing. The natural subsoil was identified relatively close to the current ground surface near the George’s Street end of the site but it fell away to 1.1m below current ground level adjacent to the Trinity Gardens (western) end of the site. Deposits of habitation or ‘garden soil’ have accumulated in the western half of the site. While most of the pottery that was identified from this ‘garden soil’ dates it from the nineteenth or twentieth century some sherds of pottery were retrieved that reflects activity from the medieval period. Several features of post-medieval or early modern date were identified including walls and cobbled surfaces that likely reflect features from the cartographic sources. No artefacts of archaeological significance were identified during the use of the metal-detector under licence 22R0046.

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