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2025:249 - Church Street, Collon, Louth

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth

Site name: Church Street, Collon

Sites and Monuments Record No.: LH020-023

Licence number: 25E0021

Author: Derek Gallagher

Author/Organisation Address: Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit, 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, County Louth

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 699755m, N 781855m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.776712, -6.486543

Archaeological assessment of this site involved the excavation of 2 test trenches totalling 60 linear metres within the footprint of the proposed development. The site has been significantly disturbed; the eastern part contained rubble mixed with spoil to a depth of 1.6m. The south-western part of the site contained remains of a demolished house that extended to 2m in depth and below.

The trenches were excavated to natural subsoil that comprised a stony boulder clay in the northwest and a grey gravel elsewhere. No deposits, features or finds of an archaeological nature were exposed and hence there will be no impact from development at this location. No further archaeological mitigation is recommended.


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