County: Louth Site name: Glebe, Grangebellew
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 22E0442
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 710280m, N 786262m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.814176, -6.325355
Archaeological test trenching was carried out at Glebe House, in Glebe townland, east of Grangebellew, Drogheda, Co. Louth. Two test trenches were excavated within the site, placed across the footprint of the proposed development. No topsoil was recorded in the trenches as the area was covered in gravel. The natural subsoil was a brown-orange clayey silt. In Trench 1, a soft, moist, brown gravelly clayey silt, C3, with a thickness of 0.09m, lay above the natural subsoil. A wall foundation, C4, was uncovered aligned north-north-east to south-south-west. It originally joined the existing north yard wall to the south yard wall. Part of the wall can still be seen above ground to the south. The wall, C4, postdates the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of 1835, where the north and
south yard walls are yet to be depicted. Trench 2 did not contain any topsoil and was full of gravel that overlay the natural subsoil. A modern stone-filled drain, C5, with frequent rounded stone in reddish-brown clayey silt and inclusions of red brick, glass sherds and plastic, was recorded extending east–west across the trench.
No archaeological features were exposed or identified. The work is now complete, and no further mitigation is necessary.
Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth. A92 DH99.
