2025:141 - Lower Point Road, Point, Dundalk, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: Lower Point Road, Point, Dundalk
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a
Licence number: 25E0192
Author: Maeve McCormick
Author/Organisation Address: Archer Heritage Planning, Unit 1, Tenure Business Park, Co Louth A92 K2VF
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 707924m, N 807301m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.003651, -6.353699
Test excavation was undertaken on 12 March 2025 on a site located in Point townland on the eastern outskirts of Dundalk, Co. Louth. A total of 8 trenches measuring 698 linear metres were excavated in the course of the works. Trenches were placed to investigate the archaeological potential of the subject area.
In every trench topsoil was dark, brown sandy-clay between 0.4–0.6m in depth. It overlay a yellow-brown compact sandy clay subsoil with frequent rounded stone inclusions and patches of sand. Occasional modern drainage trenches were noted across the site aligned north-west/south-east. These contained plastics and pottery.
No archaeological finds or features were exposed during the archaeological test trenching.