County: Meath Site name: KILSHARVAN 11, Kilsharvan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0186
Author: Ian Russell, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 669994m, N 810340m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.673397, -6.350355
The site was exposed at chainage 19608, in the centre of the proposed motorway in the townland of Kilsharvan, during monitoring of topsoil-stripping carried out during groundworks associated with the construction of Contract 7 of the Northern Motorway Project. The site was identified as an area containing natural stone cobbling.
A natural deposit of limestone fragments and gravel was exposed within the sandy boulder clay within an area measuring 1.4m by 1.3m. This was clearly a deposit of natural glacial material and was not archaeological in nature. A modern north-west/south-east field drain was exposed to the south-west. It had been filled with angular stone and measured 0.23m in width.
No archaeological features or deposits were exposed and no finds were recovered.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
