2001:958 - DONACARNEY, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: DONACARNEY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 01E1199
Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Author/Organisation Address: 15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 713696m, N 774797m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.710465, -6.277718
An assessment was carried out on a proposed residential development site at Donacarney, Co. Meath. The development involves the construction of 85 dwelling-houses and associated site works. The site is near a tower-house (SMR 21:9).
Eleven test-trenches were excavated within the proposed development site. No finds were retrieved from the trenches and no features of archaeological significance were exposed. The unusual depth of the topsoil in the field would suggest that intensive ploughing has taken place on the site with the possibility that some soil has been introduced.