2024:457 - 7-8 Defender’s Row, Townparks, Dundalk, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: 7-8 Defender’s Row, Townparks, Dundalk
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH007-119
Licence number: 24E0443
Author: Caroline Cosgrove, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth. A92 DH99.
Site type: 18th/19th-century walls
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 704905m, N 807388m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.005054, -6.399702
A trench was excavated along the site. The topsoil was loose, dark brown, clayey silt. The natural was light greenish-brown clay with pockets of grey clay and rounded stones. A high volume of rubble, belonging to the demolished structure depicted on the 1834 and 1908 OS maps, came from the topsoil.
Two walls belonging to the structure were recorded within the trench. Wall C3, comprised of red brick, was recorded at the southern end of the trench. The red brick wall was seen on the east side of the trench. It had a minimum length of 2m and survived to a height of 0.58m.
At a distance of 4m from the southern end of the trench, a stone wall, C4, was recorded at the west side of the trench. It had a length of 4m and survived to a height of 0.94m. It had a 0.85m gap that appeared to be a basement doorway. On the northern side of the doorway, the wall contained red brick. No other features were recorded in the trench
No archaeological features or deposits were observed or exposed within the trench.