County: Meath Site name: OLDBRIDGE (1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0929
Author: Kieran Campbell, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Neolithic (4000BC-2501 BC)
ITM: E 703958m, N 774757m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.712135, -6.425178
A single pit was uncovered on the access road route of the Northern Motorway (Drogheda Bypass) 50m north of its junction with the Sheephouse Road. The pit, 1m in diameter, produced sherds of Western Neolithic shouldered bowl.
6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Drogheda