County: Westmeath Site name: MULLINGAR: 11–13 Oliver Plunkett Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0521
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 643641m, N 753022m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.525352, -7.341826
Supervision of the excavation of seven pads was required by planning permission; this was for an extension to the back of the AIB premises on Oliver Plunkett Street. The stratigraphy was constant throughout the site. It had been disturbed at the east where a previous extension was constructed on a raft and a deposit of sand and hard-core had been laid down as a base.
The stratigraphy comprised c. 7m of building and demolition rubble, brick, slate etc. in a matrix of loose, black clay. Underlying that was a loose, grey garden clay deposit, c. 1m deep. This layer did not produce finds, but there was no evidence to indicate that it had archaeological significance. The grey, garden clay layer bottomed on to yellow, natural boulder clay. No material of archaeological significance was observed.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
