County: Meath Site name: ATHLUMNEY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 687582m, N 767419m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.649211, -6.675249
Monitoring was carried out during excavation for a Telecom Éireann service trench along the public road between Athlumney graveyard and Athlumney Castle, using a very narrow bucket and to a depth of 1m. At all times the machine excavated through fill. At the eastern end, closest to the convent, the fill comprised crushed stone, but going westwards it comprised mixed layers of sand, gravel and clay. At the western end of the trench the level of the road rose substantially above the level of the fields on either side in order to bring it over the railway bridge. The layers of fill had presumably been laid down when the railway bridge and the road approaches on either side were being constructed.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
