County: Westmeath Site name: MULLINGAR: Dominick Place
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0622
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 643541m, N 753022m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.525360, -7.343334
Two trenches tested this site, located to the west of the site of the Dominican priory. Trench 1 revealed evidence for disturbance caused by insertion of sewer pipes along the Dominick Place frontage. Slightly further to the west the trenching exposed grey silt, which contained brick, glass and animal bone and overlay light grey/brown, sticky, natural boulder clay with little stone.
Trench 2 exposed remains of two north–south walls, one of which was probably the foundation of a property boundary. Both of the walls were built into the grey silt layer, which was post-medieval in date, and therefore neither wall could be interpreted as associated with the priory.
It was clear that the site had been subjected to disturbance in recent times. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed in the trenches.
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