County: Meath Site name: NAVAN INNER RELIEF ROAD (PHASE 2a), Abbeylands South, Navan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0184
Author: Fiona Reilly, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 686980m, N 767834m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.653039, -6.684234
Testing was carried out in the townland of Abbeylands South, Navan, Co. Meath, in April—May 1998. The site lay to the west of the site of the Abbey of St Mary.
Seven trenches were investigated. The area of Trenches 1, 2, 6 and 7 had up to 6m of modern fill deposited in the mid-1980s, which made excavation difficult. Trenches 1–5 and 7 did not produce anything of archaeological interest.
Trench 6 produced evidence of a compacted road surface and two walls. It can be suggested that these represent the walls and lane marked on the 1st edition OS map. The lane ran to a mill by the river to the north-east. This lane (and presumably the mill it led to) had gone out of use by the 2nd edition map in 1882.
Wood Road, Cratloekeel, Co. Clare
