What is recorded here

Irish and Scottish settlers built the wall around 1200, enclosing nineteen hectares of upper Dundalk. They cut a ditch, raised a bank, and left no gap for careless entry. The town survived because ordinary people repeated that work season after season.

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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