Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Townparks (upper Dundalk By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (upper Dundalk By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.00577, -6.39470
- SMR number
- LH007-119037-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered during monitoring at 76 Seatown, Dundalk (Excavation Licence No. 03E0477), during the excavation of foundation trenches for an extension to an office building. Medieval deposits were uncovered throughout the site. Part of a medieval pit (L 2.2m; max. exposed Wth 1m; D 0.7m) was excavated. 'The fill contained frequent shell flecks (mussel, cockle), occasional whole oyster and periwinkle, ten animal bones and five small sherds of medieval pottery of local manufacture of c. 13th-14th-century date'. (Campbell 2006, 339)
Reference:
Campbell, K. 2006 Seatown, Dundalk Medieval Urban. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 339 (No. 1269). Bray. Wordwell.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 24 November 2011
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