County: Meath Site name: BELLEWSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: Unlicensed monitoring
Author: Breandán Ó Ríordáin, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Souterrain
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 709177m, N 767276m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.643867, -6.348786
Monitoring of soil-stripping on the route of the proposed realignment of the existing R150, east of Duleek, was carried out intermittently between 28 June and 2 September 2004 in an area of pasture and cultivated land. A souterrain had been discovered in cultivated land in the townland of Bellewstown in 1964; the structural remains had been back-filled almost immediately and no record of its form or content had been made. In the course of soil-stripping in a cultivated field in this townland, the site of a souterrain was located, as evidenced by the presence of darkened soil combined with superimposed structural stones and bone fragments. Excavation was recommended (04E1089, David McCullough—report not received).
Burgage More, Blessington, Co. Wicklow
