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
- 54.01136, -6.40344
- SMR number
- LH007-119038-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Testing and monitoring undertaken in advance of development (Excavation Licence No. 03E1011), uncovered two pits one of which was believed to be a medieval rubbish pit. Only half of this pit was excavated, the rest was preserved in-situ. (O'Carroll 2006, 335)
Reference:
O'Carroll, F. 2006 Bridge Street, Dundalk Urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 335 (No. 1253). Bray. Wordwell.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 24 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Meeting-houseunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
- Kiln - potteryunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.