County: Meath Site name: GORMANSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0275
Author: Patricia Lynch, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 716215m, N 766768m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.637790, -6.242594
This site was found as a result of archaeological monitoring of topsoil-stripping on the Northern Motorway/Balbriggan Bypass in compliance with the recommendations of an EIS.
The route included townlands in counties Dublin (Fingal) and Meath, OS 6" sheets 1, 4 and 5, Co. Dublin, and sheet 28, Co. Meath. The monitoring was carried out between 6 August and 31 October 1996.
Six archaeological sites were uncovered in the course of the monitoring and all have been fully excavated; this one was identified as an area of burning.
Editor’s note: This report was not received in time for inclusion in the bulletin for 1996.
10 Ashford Place, Dublin 7
