2025:030 - Haggardstown, Tuite’s Lane, Blackrock, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: Haggardstown, Tuite’s Lane, Blackrock
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH012-011
Licence number: 25E0075
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 706593m, N 803387m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.968770, -6.375363
The site lies at the north-east end of Tuite’s Lane, a residential lane in the townland of Haggardstown, with Dundalk golf course bordering the north-west side of the lane. A total of five test trenches were excavated in the footprint of a proposed development, totalling 54 linear metres of trench.
The sod and plough soil extended on average to depth of 0.45-0.6m and directly overlay natural subsoil. A layer of peat 0.2m in thickness was evident beneath the plough soil in the east of the site. Natural comprised a yellow/grey boulder clay that was stony in the west of the site. The easternmost corner of the site appeared marshy, and the subsoil was a wet grey marl in this area.
No archaeological features were exposed or identified, and no finds were recovered. The testing is now complete, and no further archaeological work is required.