What is recorded here

Midden in Townparks (ardee By.) is a medieval kitchen midden hidden beneath Church Hill at Market Street in County Louth. It marks a time when people lived closely together, eating and discarding within steps of one another. The exact depth and richness remain untested, but the name preserves what measurement has not: a place where ordinary life accumulated until it became worthy of remembering.

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 A range of medieval kitchen middens is referred to (CLAJ 1928, 255) as having been found just inside the W footpath along Church Hill at Market Street. No archaeological investigation of the site was undertaken.

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