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The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
The town wall of Dundalk enclosed an irregularly shaped elongated area of roughly 19 hectares (48 acres). Town defences investigated by Gosling (1982, 43-6) and Bradley (1984b, 128-30).
A small scale excavation on Clanbrassil Street (Excavation Licence 95E0168) revealed a section of the medieval town ditch. This excavation was the first to establish an exact location for the town defences. (McConway, 1995a)
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