County: Meath Site name: CABRAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0175
Author: Carmel Duffy
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 692344m, N 760604m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.587165, -6.605266
Archaeological monitoring was required for excavations of a private house development. The site lies c. 600m from the known monuments on Tara Hill.
The topsoil was stripped off 25m2 where the house was to be built, to a depth of 0.35–0.45m, and off a 4m-wide driveway to a depth of 0.7m. It was a dark brown, sandy silt with less than 20% stones up to 0.1m across and contained nothing of archaeological significance. The foundation trench, 1m wide and up to 0.7m deep, was excavated into the subsoil. The subsoil was red/brown boulder clay and was archaeologically sterile.
The Mill Road, Umberstown Great, Summerhill, Co. Meath
