County: Meath Site name: NAVAN SEWERAGE AUGMENTATION SCHEME
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0602
Author: Ken Hanley, for Byrne, Mullins & Associates.
Site type: Bridge
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 688918m, N 762584m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.605548, -6.656417
The Navan Sewerage Augmentation Scheme involved the insertion of sewerage pipes along several miles of road within a radius of c. 3 miles of Navan town. The project had been ongoing for some years and was nearing completion when an archaeological assessment was commissioned in September 1998. Monitoring commenced in January 1999, at which time there remained seven areas of operation.
Balreask Cross to Gainstown: no features of archaeological interest were identified.
Gainstown Road into Balreask Gardens (282m): no features of archaeological interest were identified.
Boyne Road (1320m): no features of archaeological interest were identified.
From the Balmoral Industrial Estate past the rear of Navan Carpets and looping back along the Kells road (1141m): no features of archaeological interest were identified.
Starting on the new Inner Relief Road and leading south around Navan town centre to the Commons Road (1570m). This route led diagonally across Circular Road and up to the County Council carpark. It then led onto Railway Street, Carriage Road and along the rear of McDermott Villas to the Commons Road. A buried canal bridge was identified on Circular Road, at the foot of Bridge Street. This dated roughly to the late 1790s and consisted of an arch c. 1.5m high and c. 7m wide. The canal itself, which was intended as a western extension to the Drogheda-Navan canal, was never completed.
Pumping station between Convent Road and the River Boyne: no features of archaeological interest were identified.
New sewerage treatment plant in the townland of Ferganstown and Ballymackon, c. 2 miles north-east of Navan, on the Boyne Road. Most of this site had already been developed. A souterrain passage was identified leading to a single beehive chamber. This monument was excavated under a separate licence (see No. 687 above).
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