County: Meath Site name: NAVAN: 40–42 Canon Row
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0121
Author: James Eogan, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 685832m, N 767919m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.653992, -6.701567
As a condition of planning permission three test-trenches were excavated with a tracked mechanical excavator with a 3ft-wide bucket on this site, which is within the zone of archaeological potential of Navan town. The Civil Survey (1654–6) records houses outside West Gate on the north side of Canon Row.
Trench 1 was excavated on the Canon Row frontage. Nothing of archaeological interest was found.
Trench 2 ran south-west/north-east across the yard to the rear of 42 Canon Row. A series of gullies was found cut into underlying natural, with associated 18th- and 19th-century pottery. The upper levels of the trench related to the modern use of the site as a farmyard.
Trench 3 ran south-west/north-east down the middle of the site. Nothing of archaeological interest was found. Undisturbed natural was found to slope gently towards the north-east end of the site.
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